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In over 50 years of teaching in higher education, I sometimes would delve into a personal mood with my students
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Richard E. Vatz https://wp.towson.edu/vatz/ is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of political rhetoric at Towson University and author of The Only Authentic of Persuasion: the Agenda-Spin Model (Bookwrights House, 2024) and over 200 other works, essays, lectures, and op-eds. He is the benefactor of the Richard E. Vatz Best Debater Award at Towson. The Van Bokkelen Auditorium at Towson University has been named after him.
In over 50 years of teaching in higher education, I sometimes would delve into a personal mood with my students
Read moreI taught Presidential rhetoric for over 50 years; thus, for those of you who take what follows with a grain
Read morePeople have said to me, “What personnel examples do you have of the demise of the Democratic Party?” I have
Read moreI have been a professor of rhetoric and communication for over a half-century. Here is my rhetorical prediction for the
Read moreI have been a professor of rhetoric and communication for over 50 years, and when I see manifestly illogical justifications
Read moreJust observing some of the rancorous give-and-take on my conservative Facebook site and in my career: The country, it is
Read moreProf. Robert P. Newman, the late head of the William Pitt Debating Union at the University of Pittsburgh, was one
Read moreAs a looooogtime (sic) practitioner of analyzing persuasive communication, let me tell you what to make of the Mamdani-Trump love
Read moreCalifornia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter may have lost next year’s gubernatorial race through her resistance to a simple follow-up and her cocky, profane demeanor when she ended an interview by testily objecting to her interviewer’s insistence on asking follow-up questions.
Read moreThroughout my young adulthood, the news and journalistic analysis show Meet the Press was the model of its kind. The closing self-tribute, “If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press” was iterated without embarrassment.
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