How to Speak How to ListenPractical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively. With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book. In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion. |
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Revisió d'Usuari - Trae Johnson - GoodreadsThe author provides many helpful tips on speaking and listening well, differentiating and explaining the different kinds of speaking and listening and what should be involved. He reminds the reader ... Llegeix la ressenya completa
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PART TWO UNINTERRUPTED SPEECH | |
Thats Just Rhetoric | |
The Sales Talk and Other Forms of Persuasive Speech | |
Lectures and Other Forms of Instructive Speech | |
Preparing and Delivering a Speech | |
PART THREE SILENT LISTENING | |
Forums | |
The Variety of Conversations | |
How to Make Conversation Profitable and Pleasurable | |
The Meeting of Minds | |
Teaching and Learning by Discussion | |
Conversation in Human Life | |
The Harvey Cushing Memorial Oration | |
The Twelve Days of the Aspen Executive Seminar | |
With the Minds | |
Writing While and After Listening | |
PART FOUR TWOWAY TALK | |
Seminars for Young People | |
ABOUT MORTIMER J ADLER | |
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