Teaching Audience Analysis with Presidential “Victory” Speeches

A Study on Conceptual Metaphors in Presidential Inaugural Speeches

A Readability Analysis of Campaign Speeches from the 2016 US Presidential Campaign

Introduction The goal of this report is to assess the readability of the campaign speeches of five presidential candidates in the 2016 US presidential race and to examine their evolution over time and according to the type of speech. Readability can be defined here as the reading level, from grade 1 to grade 12, of a document. It is determined by looking at the lexical contents and the grammati...

AMATI: Another Massive Audience Teaching Instrument

In this paper we present AMATI, (Another Massive Audience Teaching Instrument) to enhance knowledge transfer between a lecturer and their student audience as well as encourage the communication among students for both on line and on campus courses. AMATI provides a non-distractive environment for knowledge transfer and communication by using context aware teaching information for a specific cla...

Teaching software engineering to a mixed audience

This paper describes some observations derived from teaching a course in software engineering to a mixed audience of undergraduates and professional Master's degree students at Cornell University. We describe our initial philosophical goals in teaching the course, some of the problems we encountered, some of the unexpected results, and what we intend to do di erently next time.

Playing to an audience: the social environment influences aggression and victory displays.

Animal behaviour studies have begun to incorporate the influence of the social environment, providing new opportunities for studying signal strategies and evolution. We examined how the presence and sex of an audience influenced aggression and victory display behaviour in field-captured and laboratory-reared field crickets (Gryllus veletis). Audience type, rearing environment and their interact...