Introduction
Use Your Voice: Public Speaking as Advocacy
Welcome to Use Your Voice: Public Speaking As Advocacy
This textbook is an interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that combines rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for public speaking students from every college major and potential career field. With a focus on advocacy, this textbook invites students to consider public speaking as an intentional and meaningful form of sharing information and advocating for social awareness and change.
This book was made possible by a grant provided by the Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative.
Copyright
This text exists under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, and as such it may be used for non-commercial purposes. Any portion of this text may be altered or edited; however, author attribution is required, and if you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
Portions of this text were updated, remixed, and adapted from:
Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy by Meggie Mapes, Ph.D. at University of Kansas; licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
