ABSTRACT
Academic public speaking is a unique variant of social communications or what has become known as public intellectualism. When academic public speakers share good ideas without thinking through the feasibility of implementation, little is gained. Like other forms of social communications, academic public speaking is designed to convey or transfer a message from the communicator, deliverer, or messenger to an intended recipient, reader, or audience. Today’s growing cadre of neoclassical public intellectuals, however, reflects larger, capitalist currents of change that have dramatically transformed the academy and academic marketplace. The science of academic public speaking refers to a speaker’s general approach, oratorical methods, and tools. The predominant majority of classical academic speakers had little form and even less fashion to their public talks and most preferred to stand at lecterns waxing philosophical about the fine details of their existential scholarship without interruption from eager audiences who yearned to connect their interests with the speaker’s expertise.
