His interests include travel, sports, art, and photography.Р”В«y prompting students to engage with key concepts, while continually adapting to their individual needs, Connect activates learning and empowers students to take control resulting in better grades and increased retention rates. Stephen Lucas and his wife, Patty, live in Madison, Wisconsin, and have two sons, Jeff and Ryan. In addition to participating in public speaking workshops and colloquia at schools throughout the United States, he has served as a judge for the major national English-language public speaking competitions in China, has lectured at numerous Chinese universities, and has conducted workshops for Chinese instructors on teaching public speaking.

Over the years he has been responsible for numerous teaching innovations and has supervised the training of hundreds of graduate assistants. Professor Lucas has directed the introductory public speaking course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1973. Professor Lucas is featured in the Educational Video GroupРІР‚в„ўs program on the history of American public address, and he has appeared on the History ChannelРІР‚в„ўs documentary on the Declaration of Independence. His lecture course on 'The Rhetoric of Campaigns and Revolutions' is among the most popular on campus and has twice been selected for statewide broadcast in its entirety by Wisconsin Public Radio. Professor Lucas has received a number of teaching awards, including the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Wisconsin and the National Communication AssociationРІР‚в„ўs Donald Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education. His most recent book is Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900-1999 (2009). His major articles include 'The Schism in Rhetorical Scholarship' (1981), 'The Renaissance of American Public Address: Text and Context in Rhetorical Criticism' (1988), 'The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of IndependenceРІР‚Сњ (1990), and РІР‚СљThe Rhetorical Ancestry of the Declaration of IndependenceРІР‚Сњ (1998), for which he received the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award of the National Communication Association. His first book, Portents of Rebellion: Rhetoric and Revolution in Philadelphia, 1765-1776, received the Golden Anniversary Award of the National Communication Association in 1977 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Professor Lucas has been recognized for his work as both a scholar and a teacher. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his master's and doctorate degrees from Penn State University. Lucas is Professor of Communication Arts and Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught since 1972.

The art of public speaking edition 12