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How accessible is the global communication discipline? Examining accessibility, readability, and mobility of institution and department websites for International Communication Association institutional members

In response to the International Communication Association’s 2022 theme, “One World, One Network,” we argue that one way to expand the notion of ‘One World’ and to signal…

The truth can be stuttered: Rethinking what it means to be a good speaker 

Josh Compton, Professor of Speech and covert stutterer, has been thinking about voice all his life, from his childhood struggles with fluency to his recent research on public speaking…

Being the voice: A conversation with Josh and Trumie

My nonspeaking son is a great speech teacher. JOSH COMPTON Being the Voice: A Conversation with Josh and Trumie. Windsor School. October 17, 2022.

Reframing public speaking with a stutter

I was once asked how I succeeded in my career as a as a speech professor in spite of my stutter. And now I can say quite confidently…

Conversation starter: Image prepare, preemptive image repair, and inoculation theory in the preface to Winans’ (1938) Speech-making

[S]ome of the rhetorical moves Winans makes, I contend, are doing particularly notable work, with a focus toward image prepare—the preemptive use of image-building strategies against anticipated attacks….

Chapter: Inoculation theory and metaliterate learning

The goal of an inoculation campaign, then, is to create a more robust, healthier immune response to that which could harm. Josh Compton https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/metaliterate-learning-post-truth-world This chapter draws on…

A note from the outgoing editor

Forensic scholarship is communication scholarship. Josh Compton Compton, J. (2017). A note from the outgoing editor. The Forensic of Pi Kappa Delta, 102(1), 1. ISSN: 0015-735X

Re-thinking anxiety: Using inoculation messages to reduce and reinterpret public speaking fears

It is important that researchers devise methods that not only help with anxiety reduction, but also assist participants in reinterpreting their remaining nerves more positively. Ben Jackson, Josh…

50th Anniversary Dartmouth Institute and Conference at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, United States

Quite simply: In this presentation, I ask for another look at inoculation as an analogic in writing and speaking—taking a wider view of what it means to inoculate…

Chapter: Imagining a writing and rhetoric program based on principles of knowledge ‘transfer’: Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.

In creating each course, speech professors were mindful of shared learning objectives, drawing out themes that cross such diverse topics as intercultural communication and political humor, image repair…