G. Thomas Goodnight

  • Professor
  • Director of Doctoral Studies
  • USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Office: (213) 821-5384

Expertise Summary

Expert in rhetorical and argumentation theory and practice, especially related to public policy, science and war

Expertise

  • rhetorical theory
  • criticism
  • argumentation
  • public sphere
  • organizational communication
  • war rhetoric
  • science advocacy and communication
  • risk communication
  • deliberation in a post-war society
  • aesthetics and rhetoric
  • public discourse reasoning for controversial issues

Additional Information

  • Former editor of Argumentation and Advocacy
  • Named among the five top scholars in argumentation of the last 50 years by the American Forensics Association