Adapting Authors’ Notes

Welcome to Communication for the Public Good: Public Speaking as Advocacy & Civic Engagement. This open educational resource remixes and adapts material from some of the best public speaking textbooks available to offer a contemporary, innovative approach to oral communication centered on advocacy and civic engagement.

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, 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).

Chapter 14 also includes content from chapter 19 of Communication for College, Career, and Civic Life (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted).