Acknowledgements
This open textbook has been adapted by the Oral Communication Program (Drs. Hailey N. Otis, Melissa A. Lucas, & Raphael Mazzone) at the University of Maryland, College Park.
We would like to acknowledge and thank the following authors/entities who have graciously made their work available for the remixing, reusing, and adapting of this text:
- Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy, 2nd ed. by Meggie Mapes (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted).
- Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm, 2nd ed. by Jennifer Y. Abbott, Todd F. McDorman, David M. Timmerman, and L. Jill Lamberton (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted).
- Communication for College, Career, and Civic Life by Ryan McGeough, C. Kyle Rudick, Danielle Dick McGeough, and Kathryn B. Golsan (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted).
In particular, we would like to thank Dr. Jennifer Abbott for her generosity in sharing preliminary versions of her outstanding text. Special thanks to Saher Randhawa and Katlin Gray from the Do Good Institute at UMD for helping us customize the textbook for a Maryland audience. Moreover, we are deeply indebted to Sarah Clinton-McCausland (Humanities, Social Sciences & Open Education Librarian, University of Maryland Libraries) for her guidance, support, and continual encouragement throughout our OER journey.
