Richard Vatz

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Biography

Richard Vatz was born in 1946. He received a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. He is a professor in the Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies at Towson University. He specializes in political rhetoric, psychiatry, rhetoric and public policy, media criticism [1]. He has had over two hundred and fifty articles and reviews in a variety of professional journals and newspapers[2]. According to Ratemyprofessors.com he has an 4.4 overall quality with no red chili peppers denoting hotness.

He has won a variety of teaching awards at Towson University, and is the longest serving member of Towson University's University Senate, 22 years at the end of his current term. He was the 1994 winner of The Thomas Szasz Award, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and Laissez-Faire Books.Professor Vatz has commented on the above topics for local and national media, including CBS radio, Pat Buchanan's nationally syndicated radio show, William F. Buckley's "Firing Line," CNN's "Larry King Live" and "Crossfire," and "Donahue." In Baltimore, he has provided hundreds of 'expert' appearances on television stations WMAR, WJZ, WBFF, and WBAL-Radio over the last 20 years. [3]

Article Summaries

Vatz, Richard "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation

Additional Works/Publications

Books

The Only Authentic Book of Persuasion: The Salience-agenda/meaning-spin Model. [4]

Articles/Essays

"The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation," [5]

"The Mythical Status of Situational Rhetoric: Implications for Rhetorical Critics' Relevance in the Public Arena."Full Text[6]

Further Readings

Other Scholarly Views

Agreement

Opposition

Lloyd Bitzer

References

  1. http://pages.towson.edu/vatz/shortcvMay02.htm
  2. http://pages.towson.edu/vatz/shortcvMay02.htm
  3. http://drugwarfacts.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/drugfacts/experts.pl?i=205
  4. Vatz, Richard E. "The Only Authentic Book of Persuasion: The Salience-agenda/meaning-spin Model." Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Pub., 2012. Print.
  5. Richard E. Vatz, "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation," PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC (Summer, 1973)
  6. Vatz, Richard. "The Mythical Status of Situational Rhetoric: Implications for Rhetorical Critics' Relevance in the Public Arena." Review of Communication 9.1 (2009): 1-5. Print.

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