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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... Chapter III WHAT MAKES A SPEECH SUCCESSFUL You now understand how to take part in a discussion. Even if you came unprepared, your mind would not be at a loss to find where and what it can contribute. It has two key questions: what is it? and what of it? to open its way. These questions apply: 1. To the whole subject under discussion. So applied they suggest where you can contribute; they establish the relation between your point of view and the point of view of other speakers; and they give you a sense of proportion among the values at stake. 2. To your speech as a contribution to the meet ing. So applied they will help your speech to take an effective form. This second application needs to be made clear. You need to get a sense of the psychological problem in speaking and a power of improvising speechplans. A speech gets its cutting-edge, as it were, from clean-cut thinking, so that its form should develop by attention to the thought-forces that organize it rather than to any speech-maker's rules. In chapters IV to VII you will come to close quarters with logic, which develops good form indirectly, by involving it in points of skillful thinking. But since in the meanwhile you will be trying out your speech-organizing powers, this chapter offers a "rationale" by which your practice may be made to count for effectiveness at once. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PBOBLEM Perhaps some one has put in your hands a volume of model speeches--masterpieces by famous orators. Naturally you expect to learn points of successful speaking from them, and so indeed you will. But somehow they do not quite fit your case. They tackle a different problem from yours. Most of them were "set numbers" on the program, whereas your speech must refer to arguments preceding and must expect a rejoi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459039681
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459039688
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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