Announcementabout a Professorial Lecture:

Are you interested in English Public Speaking?

Do you wish to become a charming English public speaker?

Come to Prof.Stephen E. Lucas’ lecture onpublic speaking.

EnglishTitle： Martin LutherKing’s “I Have a Dream”: The Making of a Masterpiece

中文题目： 马丁·路德·金的《我有一个梦想》——大师演讲的修辞艺术

Venue: OctagonalLecture Hall or B8 Lecture Hall (depending on the size of the audience), SouthCampus

Time: 3:30-5:00 PM,Tuesday, 5 May 2015

P.S.: Please sign up inthe attached form to help us to figure out the size of the audience so as todecide on the venue.

Practice Teaching Department

School of English and Education

16 April 2015

About Prof. Stephen E. Lucas

Professorof Communication Arts and Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin.

His firstbook, Portents of Rebellion: Rhetoric and Revolution in Philadelphia, 1765–1776,received the Golden Anniversary Award of the National Communication Associationin 1977 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

His essay,“The Rhetorical Ancestry of the Declaration of Independence” (1998), receivedthe Golden Anniversary Monograph Award of the National CommunicationAssociation, and in 2009 he received the same organization’s DistinguishedScholar Award.

His mostrecent book is Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900–1999(Oxford University Press, 2009).

ProfessorLucas is also author of The Art of Public Speaking, which is used atmore than 1,000 colleges and universities around the world, and is known as“the big red book” of public speaking in China. One of the most influentialtextbooks of its time, regardless of academic discipline, it has establishedthe paradigm for current approaches to the teaching of public speaking.

In 2004, itreceived both the William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award and the TextbookExcellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association. His numerouspedagogical innovations have had a profound impact in the United States, China and beyond.

ProfessorLucas first came to China in 2001. In addition to serving as a judge at the21st Century Cup National English Speaking Competition and the FLTRP CupNational English Debating Competition, he has become known as a commentator forthe CCTV Cup English Speaking Contest. He has lectured at many Chineseuniversities, has presented workshops on public speaking instruction forChinese professors, and has been a featured guest on CCTVInternational’s Dialogue and on China Radio International. He hasalso worked with numerous visiting scholars from China in his seminars andteacher training sessions at the University of Wisconsin.

斯蒂文 ·E. 卢卡斯教授简介

斯蒂文 ·E. 卢卡斯（Prof. Stephen E. Lucas），演讲学领域的国际权威学者，也是演讲与交流艺术的实践者，威斯康星大学麦迪逊总校交流艺术系教授。

卢卡斯教授学术成就卓著。第一本著作《反抗的征兆：费城的修辞与革命（1765-1776）》获得美国传播学会1977年度金奖，并获普利策奖提名。此后，又因一系列的重要文章如《美国公共演讲的复兴：修辞学批判的文本和语境》（1988）、《独立宣言的修辞学溯源》等荣获美国传播学会专题论文年度金奖。

卢卡斯教授是国际权威演讲教材——《演讲的艺术》一书的作者。《演讲的艺术》一书奠定了当代英语演讲教学的基本教学模式，并多次获得美国“优秀教材金奖”等奖项。

卢卡斯教授组织了无数次教学教材革新，先后培养了数百位研究生助教。他应邀主持或参加的各类演讲培训项目几乎遍及全美各地的高校。2002年起卢卡斯教授连续担任我国“21世纪杯”、“CCTV杯”、“外研社杯”等全国英语演讲比赛的评委和点评嘉宾，多次受邀参加中央电视台“对话”栏目，并在我国举办了数期英语演讲教学研修班，培训了上千位英语演讲教师。

《演讲的艺术》（第十版-中国版）简介     

被誉为“演讲圣经”的《演讲的艺术》自1983年出版以来，已连续出版30年，再版10次，全球发行近千万册，始终高居美国演讲教科书销售榜榜首。目前全球数千所大学使用本书作为演讲课教材。

《演讲的艺术》（第十版-中国版）既保留了原书精髓，又融入了中国特色，更具实用性与适用性，是大学英语演讲课程的首选教材和大学通识课程的推荐教材，也是学习者参加演讲赛事、提高演讲水平、培养国际视野、提升综合素养的必备参考书。