Presenters: Brooke Chambers, Michigan State University Courtney Danforth, College of Southern Nevada Harley Ferris, University of Findlay Review: Brooke Chambers has just made a bold move in her presentation at C&W. During her presentation on “embodied listening” she shares a reviewer’s assessment of her panel’s presentation, noting how the reviewer called into question the point behind her presentation. The reviewer states, “Studies have shown that culturally, leaving these pauses in, especially frequent vocal pauses, can make audiences feel that the speaker might be less intelligent than they really are…” Chambers points out the sentence and says, “This is exactly the…
Author: Amelia Chesley
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Amelia Chesley currently teaches technical communication as Assistant Professor at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Her research interests include intellectual property, digital archives and public knowledge collections, online communities, and sonic rhetorics.