Donald E. Williams

Rhetorical criticism: Prognoses for the seventies—a symposium

This symposium presents five optimistic predictions for the field of rhetorical criticism in the 1970s. The participants express divergent views regarding appropriate objects for critical study and the nature of rhetorical criticism itself.

Idea clarification: A matter of predesign

If ones ideas register clearly with listeners, the primary goal of speaking has been realized. Guided by selected principles of learning, a speaker can plan the content of his message so that listeners can more completely understand the intended meaning. In this discussion, Che providing of idea clarification is correlated with the promoting of learning for listeners. Ten principles of learning are characterized. Random effort by the speaker can be replaced by purposeful, advance design in the speakers presentation in order to establish clarity for ideas.

Book reviews: The province of reviewing books

New Horizons For Teacher Education in Speech Communication: Report of The Memphis Conference of Teacher Education. P. Judson Newcombe and R. R. Allen, eds. Skokie, Illinois: National Textbook Co., 1974; pp. viii + 188;

Charles G. Dawes: The conscience of normalcy

5.75. An Introduction to Intercultural Communication. By John C. Condon and Fathi Yousef. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Co., 1975; pp. 306.

Protest under the cross: The Ku Klux Klan presents its case to the public, 1960

3.95. History of the Theatre. By Oscar G. Brockett. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon Company, 1974; pp. xii + 680.

Rhetorically Acculturating the Computer as a Given of Society

13.95. Approaching Speech/Communication. By Michael Burgoon. New York: Holt‐Rinehart and Winston, 1974; pp. 396 + index + instructors manual.

A symposium: Teaching intercultural communication‐mission and design

6.95. Communication Behavior and Experiments: A Scientific Approach. By R. Wayne Pace, Robert R. Boren, and Brent D. Peterson. Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1975; pp. x + 433.

A Symposium: Teaching Intercultural Communication-- Mission and Design (III. Implementing Content through Methods in Teaching Intercultural Communication).

9.95.

III. Implementing content through methods in teaching intercultural communication

Political leaders can often correlate their success with their ability to reflect in their public speeches the accepted value systems of their times. Charles G. Dawes, a leading and respected political figure in the 1920s, the decade •of normalcy, presents an interesting exception to this observation. While supporting the popular belief of the period that the ideal setting for the nations life had evolved and that this Tiappy state should be preserved, he also strongly urged in regard to important policy matters that his listeners be alert to the dangers of complacency, question practices generally unquestioned, and formulate new premises for thought and action. No stranger in the house of normalcy, Dawes was nevertheless something of a unique resident.