Rhetorical Training
Conditions for effective
rhetorical training and public speaking as based on modern empirical research
and contemporary education principles: Some of my past work in this field
includes the development of modern debate, declamation and disputation rules
that match optimal rhetorical training with success in competitive settings.
Those rule sets and adjudications criteria are now used in national academic
competitions including the German national debating championships. Most of the
findings are published in four rhetorical textbooks including the very
successful Trainingsbuch Rhetorik
published by UTB Schöningh one of the largest academic publishing houses in
Germany.