50th Anniversary Of Speaker & Gavel Special Issue Introduction,
2015
University of Jyväskylä
50th Anniversary Of Speaker & Gavel Special Issue Introduction, Stephen M. Croucher
Speaker & Gavel
Editor's introduction by Stephen M. Croucher from volume 50, issue 2 of Speaker & Gavel.
Complete Issue 51(1),
2015
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Complete Issue 51(1)
Speaker & Gavel
Complete digitized issue (volume 51, issue 1) of Speaker & Gavel.
A Functional Analysis Of 2008 And 2012 Presidential Nomination Acceptance Addresses,
2015
Ohio University
A Functional Analysis Of 2008 And 2012 Presidential Nomination Acceptance Addresses, William L. Benoit
Speaker & Gavel
This study investigates the presidential candidates’ nomination acceptance ad-dresses in 2008 and 2012. This study applied Benoit’s (2007) Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to the four Acceptances (one from McCain, two from Obama, and one from Romney). Traditionally the conventions kick off the general election campaign and the nominees’ acceptance addresses are high-lights of these events. This work extends previous research on acceptance ad-dresses speeches from 1952-2004. The speeches in 2008 and 2012 used acclaims (73%) more than attacks (27%) or defenses (0.5%). Incumbents acclaimed more, and attacked less, than challengers, particularly when they discussed their records in office …
Experiential Learning And The Basic Communication Course: A New Path To Assessing Forensic Learning Outcomes,
2015
Southwest Minnesota State University
Experiential Learning And The Basic Communication Course: A New Path To Assessing Forensic Learning Outcomes, Ben Walker
Speaker & Gavel
Scholars have often touted the educational benefits of forensics (e.g.: Bartanen, 1998; Beasley, 1979; Brownlee, 1979; Ehninger, 1952; Gartell, 1973; Jensen, 2008; McBath, 1975; Millsap, 1998; Schroeder & Schroeder, 1995; Stenger, 1999; Yaremchuk, 1979). Critics, most notably Burnett, Brand, and Meister (2003), have argued forensics is only a competitive game with the idea of education used as a crutch to uphold the activity in the eyes of schools. While attempting to counter critics, many forensic educators have scrambled to find proof of student learning. Besides theoretical approaches to potential learning methods (e.g., Dreibelbis & Gullifor, 1992; Friedley, 1992; Sellnow, Littlefield, …
Survival Strategies In Solidly Partisan States An Analysis Of Centrist Appeals In 2012 U.S. Senate Debates,
2015
University of Missouri
Survival Strategies In Solidly Partisan States An Analysis Of Centrist Appeals In 2012 U.S. Senate Debates, Matthew L. Spialek, Stevie M. Munz
Speaker & Gavel
With the growing number of centrist senators diminishing on Capitol Hill, the next few election cycles will be crucial to the survival of this moderate group of lawmakers. Campaign debate scholars should investigate how vulnerable incumbents construct a centrist issue agenda and image to connect with voters in states ideologically incongruent with the incumbents’ parties. In doing so, debate scholars will also fill the lack of lower-level debate research. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods, this analysis examined the debate appeals of Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Scott Brown (R-MA). Findings suggest McCaskill’s issue agenda was congruent with a centrist …
Complete Issue 52(1),
2015
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Complete Issue 52(1)
Speaker & Gavel
Complete digitized issue (volume 52, issue 1) of Speaker & Gavel.
Hosting A Tournament,
2015
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Hosting A Tournament, Larry Schnoor, Ben Stewart
Speaker & Gavel
There comes a time in one's tenure as a Forensic Coach when one may think of hosting a tournament for various reasons. This can be a wonderful and meaningful experience for both you and the attending coaches and students, but it carries with it many challenges and a great deal of work. In trying to deal with what needs to be considered and planned in order to host a successful tournament, there are numerous elements that need to be given consideration. This article will at-tempt to provide you with guidelines and conditions to consider before one makes the final decision …
The First-Year Coach,
2015
Ohio University
The First-Year Coach, Keith Bistodeau
Speaker & Gavel
The first year coaching a team is both exciting and terrifying. The first year coaching a team is your first taste of the career you may be doing for the rest of your life, on top of teaching, research, having a family, and having social life. Some of you reading this article may have a plethora of experience in forensics as a competitor, graduate student assistant, judge, sibling, or friend, while others may have no experience in forensics at all. Don’t worry; we have all been in your shoes in one way or another. This article is a checklist for …
Budget Considerations,
2015
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Budget Considerations, Larry Schnoor
Speaker & Gavel
There are many responsibilities and duties for the director of forensics. One such responsibility that every coach will have to give very careful consideration and attention is the budget necessary for a sound forensic program. Yes, the question of funds is very important when one considers beginning and maintaining a sound forensic program in any college or university. We only have to look at how the events of the past few years have provided us with the evidence that our administrators are under the gun to tighten financial expenditures and in doing so, have begun to look closely at departments …
Judge Training: Judging Individual Events, Judging Parliamentary Debate, Judging Lincoln-Douglas Debate,
2015
Marine Corps University
Judge Training: Judging Individual Events, Judging Parliamentary Debate, Judging Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Todd T. Holm, Justin Foote
Speaker & Gavel
This article provides a tournament di-rector with a self-contained judge training packet that can be copied and handed to judges or modified with your tournament specific information. This article ex-plains the mechanics of judging Individual Events, Parliamentary Debate, and Lincoln-Douglas Debate by providing lay judges with help in terms of how to express their thoughts about the event they just watched. The following material does not, nor should any judge training, mandate what is good or bad in a perfor-mance, but rather describes how to provide valuable feedback based on their ed-ucated reactions to the performances.
"It's Only A Hired": An Instructional Look At The Forensic Ballot,
2015
Hastings College
"It's Only A Hired": An Instructional Look At The Forensic Ballot, Kittie Grace
Speaker & Gavel
The judge’s ballot, within the forensic community, is used as an educational tool. Yet, the tool is often dismissed by the students it is designed to help (Choui-nard, 2010). College forensic competitors repeatedly discredit ballots, especially if they are written by a “hired,” or nontraditional, judge (Hanson, 1998b). Through a content analysis, this study identifies that ballots from both hired judges or non-traditional judges and traditional judges (coaches) provide “speech acts” that in-struct students about their performances (Austin, 1962, p. 5). This research looks at the specific speech act differences identified between nontraditional and tradi-tional judge messages. The analysis suggests …
(Re)Building A Team Culture,
2015
Marine Corps University
(Re)Building A Team Culture, Todd T. Holm
Speaker & Gavel
The purpose of this article is to provide a director of forensics who wishes to rebuild a forensics program with advice, ideas, and guidance based on organiza-tional theory, organizational change research, and lived experience. This article approaches organizational culture as a dynamic construct of an organization. “Proponents of the perspective of culture as a dynamic construct are interested in both a better understanding of organizations through application of a cultural per-spective and a conscious development of organizational culture” (Sackmann, 1990, p. 133). This perspective treats culture as something an organization is and something an organization has. The shaping of forensics …
Genesis Of A Special Issue,
2015
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Genesis Of A Special Issue, Daniel Cronn-Mills
Speaker & Gavel
Notes from guest editor Daniel Cronn-Mills on the special issue of volume 52 of Speaker & Gavel.
Complete Issue 52(2),
2015
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Complete Issue 52(2)
Speaker & Gavel
Complete digitized issue (volume 52, issue 2) of Speaker & Gavel.
Bully Or Dupe?: Governor Chris Christie’S Image Repair On The Bridge Lane Closure Scandal,
2015
Ohio University
Bully Or Dupe?: Governor Chris Christie’S Image Repair On The Bridge Lane Closure Scandal, William L. Benoit
Speaker & Gavel
In 2013, two lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge – the busiest in the nation – in Fort Lee, NJ, were closed. In January of 2014, it emerged that Christie’s Deputy Chief of Staff Kelley instigated this problem. Governor Christie was accused of retaliating against Fort Lee’s Mayor Mark Sokolich, who had not endorsed Christie’s re-election bid. Christie fired Kelley, held a press conference, and apologized to Sokolich and the people of Fort Lee. Christie’s primary strategies were mortification and corrective action, but he also used denial, differentiation, minimization, and defeasibility to deal with this situation. Minimization was interesting …
Foreign Policy Rhetoric In The 1992 Presidential Campaign: Bill Clinton’S Exceptionalist Jeremiad,
2015
Bridgewater State University
Foreign Policy Rhetoric In The 1992 Presidential Campaign: Bill Clinton’S Exceptionalist Jeremiad, Jason A. Edwards
Speaker & Gavel
This essay examines presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s rhetoric regarding America’s role in the world during the 1992 presidential campaign. Despite the fact that foreign policy was George H.W. Bush’s strength during the campaign, candidate Clinton was able to develop a coherent vision for America’s role in the world that he carried into his presidency. I argue he did so by fusing together the American exceptionalist missions of exemplar and intervention. In doing so, Clinton altered a tension embedded in debates over U.S. foreign policy rhetoric. To further differentiate his candidacy from President Bush, Clinton encased this discourse within a secular …
Copycat Forensics: How Social Learning Problematizes Intercollegiate Forensic Performances,
2015
James Madison University
Copycat Forensics: How Social Learning Problematizes Intercollegiate Forensic Performances, Alyssa Reid
Speaker & Gavel
This paper highlights noticeable problems stemming from students adopting forensic norms without critiquing practice. Although many pedagogically sound reasons account for some structural similarities in events, many performance choices enacted in forensic competition are not grounded in educational principles but are learned and fostered through social learning. Currently, students can achieve forensic success without developing sound reasons for performance choices. Uncovering the ways in which students, judges, and coaches, produce and reproduce copycat performances can improve overall academic and competitive rigor.
The 2015 State Of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha,
2015
Southwest Minnesota State University
The 2015 State Of Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha, Ben Walker
Speaker & Gavel
Brief history and update of the Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha organization.
Descriptive Analysis Of Ted Cruz's Announcement Speech,
2015
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
Descriptive Analysis Of Ted Cruz's Announcement Speech, Jacqueline A. Bast
Rhetorical Analyses of the Announcement Speeches of Presidential Hopefuls
No abstract provided.
Steve Jobs’ Use Of Ethos For Persuasive Success In His 2005 Stanford Commencement Address,
2015
Ohio University
Steve Jobs’ Use Of Ethos For Persuasive Success In His 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, Keith Bistodeau
Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal
The use of ethos in persuasive settings has always been a powerful tool in public speaking, especially by those in power and in businesses. Kenneth Burke’s Pentad plays a primary role in persuasive situations, particularly when we as scholars try to dissect and understand specific aspects of a speech situation. In this essay I used Burke’s Pentad as a framework to explore Steve Jobs’ use of, as I term it, “internal and external ethos” as not only a persuasive mechanism, but also as a force to build his persona/mythological legacy.
