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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…

Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, United States

Speaking with: A conversation with Prof. Josh Compton. Invited by Laurie McMillin, Professor and Chair, Rhetoric and Composition, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA. March 11, 2015.

Remembering Bob Derryberry, five years later

The calendar doesn’t lie, I have heard it said, and yet, I’m pretty sure that it stretches the truth. Josh Compton Compton, J. (2015). Remembering Bob Derryberry, five…