1. The Communication Process:
Writing and Speaking in an
Academic Context
Dr. David Lawrence
Center for the Enhancement of
Teaching and Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology

9. How is human
communication possible?

11. Writing Projects Speaking Projects
thesis / dissertation conference presentation
curriculum vitae / resume poster presentation
cover letter interview
teaching statement teaching
research statement business presentation
journal article testimony
grant proposal media source

12. Writing Projects Speaking Projects
thesis / dissertation conference presentation
curriculum vitae / resume poster presentation
cover letter interview
teaching statement teaching
research statement business presentation
journal article testimony
grant proposal media source

13. Writing Projects Speaking Projects
thesis / dissertation conference presentation
curriculum vitae / resume poster presentation
cover letter interview
teaching statement teaching
research statement business presentation
journal article testimony
grant proposal media source

14. Writing Projects Speaking Projects
thesis / dissertation conference presentation
curriculum vitae / resume poster presentation
cover letter interview
teaching statement teaching
research statement business presentation
journal article testimony
grant proposal media source

15. Writing Projects Speaking Projects
thesis / dissertation conference presentation
curriculum vitae / resume poster presentation
cover letter interview
teaching statement teaching
research statement business presentation
journal article testimony
grant proposal media source

16. Writing Projects Speaking Projects
thesis / dissertation conference presentation
curriculum vitae / resume poster presentation
cover letter interview
teaching statement teaching
research statement business presentation
journal article testimony
grant proposal media source

17. Writing Projects Speaking Projects
thesis / dissertation conference presentation
curriculum vitae / resume poster presentation
cover letter interview
teaching statement teaching
research statement business presentation
journal article testimony
grant proposal media source

18. Writing Projects Speaking Projects
thesis / dissertation conference presentation
curriculum vitae / resume poster presentation
cover letter interview
teaching statement teaching
research statement business presentation
journal article testimony
grant proposal media source

19. Resume / Cover Letter / CV

20. Resume / Cover Letter
Dissertation

21. Journal Article

22. Poster
Sessions

23. Panel Presentation

24. Teaching

25. Testimony

27. Writing Speaking
space - distant space - immediacy
time - future time - present
visual cues for meaning audible cues for meaning
delayed feedback (if any) immediate feedback
permanent ephemeral
formal language informal language
word constraints time constraints

28. Writing Speaking
space - distant space - immediacy
time - future time - present
visual cues for meaning audible cues for meaning
delayed feedback (if any) immediate feedback
permanent ephemeral
formal language informal language
word constraints time constraints

29. Writing Speaking
space - distant space - immediacy
time - future time - present
visual cues for meaning audible cues for meaning
delayed feedback (if any) immediate feedback
permanent ephemeral
formal language informal language
word constraints time constraints

30. Writing Speaking
space - distant space - immediacy
time - future time - present
visual cues for meaning audible cues for meaning
delayed feedback (if any) immediate feedback
permanent ephemeral
formal language informal language
word constraints time constraints

31. Writing Speaking
space - distant space - immediacy
time - future time - present
visual cues for meaning audible cues for meaning
delayed feedback (if any) immediate feedback
permanent ephemeral
formal language informal language
word constraints time constraints

32. Writing Speaking
space - distant space - immediacy
time - future time - present
visual cues for meaning audible cues for meaning
delayed feedback (if any) immediate feedback
permanent ephemeral
formal language informal language
word constraints time constraints

33. Writing Speaking
space - distant space - immediacy
time - future time - present
visual cues for meaning audible cues for meaning
delayed feedback (if any) immediate feedback
permanent ephemeral
formal language informal language
word constraints time constraints

34. Writing Speaking
space - distant space - immediacy
time - future time - present
visual cues for meaning audible cues for meaning
delayed feedback (if any) immediate feedback
permanent ephemeral
formal language informal language
word constraints time constraints

35. Writing — Permanent

36. Speaking — Ephemeral

37. Space / Time
Distant / Future

38. Space / Time
Immediacy / Present

39. Visual Cues
for Meaning

40. Visual / Audible
Cues for Meaning

41. Why are some
speakers / writers
more persuasive
than others?

42. “Rhetoric may be
defined as the faculty of
observing in any given
case the available
means of persuasion.”
- Aristotle

43. Plan
What is my
purpose?

44. Forensic

45. Deliberative

46. Ceremonial

47. What is your
purpose for
writing / speaking?

48. Plan
Who is my audience?

49. Selection
Committee

50. Prepare
Invention

51. Ethos
appeals to character

52. Logos
appeals to reason

53. Pathos
appeals to emotion

54. Prepare
Arrangement

57. Prepare
Style

58. Present
Delivery

59. Visual Support