Abstract
My purpose in this essay is to consider the contemporary role of rhetoric in this age of information, this decade of the media. I shall be describing the thinking that has led to a course in applied rhetoric, specifically, the development of an academic course which aims at preparing students to write speeches for other people. The first question is: Is there a demand for speech writers? We recall that lographers existed in classical Greece. We also know that lography was not a highly respected position. Remember the vehemence with which Isocrates denied ever having been a speech writer!
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
22
Issue
1
First Page
3
Last Page
9
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Townsend, Patricia
(1990)
"Speech Writing: Why Not Teach It?,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 22:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol22/iss1/3
Copyright
©1990 Iowa Communication Association
