Interview About Public Speaking Evaluation And Reviews With Communication Professor Dr. Steven Brydon

LOS ALTOS, CA, June 10, 2011 (Press-News.org) Public speaking instructors and coaches often use speech rubrics to generate public speaking evaluations of their students' speeches. These rubrics provide a mechanism for speech assessments, speech critiques, and speech analysis. Over a million speech evaluations and presentation critiques are produced every year by tens of thousands of public speaking instructors, coaches, and other professionals, as estimated by Rate Speeches. Despite their importance, speech evaluation and speech rubrics are seldom researched and investigated.

Communication professor and author, Dr. Steven Brydon, offered valuable recommendations about designing speech rubrics, conducting in-class student self-evaluations, and performing speech assessments while minimizing defensiveness and anxiety associated with receiving feedback.

To read the full interview, please visit: http://www.ratespeeches.com/a=speech-evaluation-interview-with-dr-steven-brydon or the Rate Speeches website at http://www.RateSpeeches.com.

About Steven Brydon
Steven Brydon is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Chico, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He teaches courses in public speaking, small group communication, argumentation, and public opinion and propaganda. He coached speech and debate for 12 years and served as department chair for 10 years over two separate terms. For over a decade he co-directed the public speaking course along with Dr. Michael D. Scott, his co-author on the public speaking book Between One and Many: The Art and Science of Public Speaking, published by McGraw-Hill, now in its seventh edition. He has also coauthored two other books and has written in the areas of political communication, argumentation, and debate.

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