Abstract
All through high school and college the hidden truth that "speech lacks credibility as an intrinsically valuable discipline" escaped me. Only after I graduated with a speech major, public speaking emphasis, and found my first teaching job did reality hit. I overheard my new colleague, who, incidentally, coaches oral interpretation, say, "Why did they hire someone with a nothing major like that?" In the seven years of teaching that followed, I realized "speech" lacks credibility throughout the state of Iowa. Here, as elsewhere, administrators can't be convinced to incorporate speech as a requirement in addition to the standard writing and literature requirements. Here, as elsewhere, a high school speech department is rare, although several one-person art, foreign language or home economics departments are present.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
14
Issue
2
First Page
21
Last Page
22
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Myers, Janis
(1982)
"The Credibility Problem in the Field of Speech,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 14:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol14/iss2/6
Copyright
©1982 Iowa Communication Association
