Share 'Public Speaking, Death and Twitter in the Classroom'

How many times have you said something about public speaking or your reluctance to give speeches and had someone come right back with the threadbare cliché about how “one study” found that “the average person fears public speaking more than death?” Who conducted this study, exactly? Regardless of whether or not this “study”/cliché can be validated, it is true that most of us—especially our studen…