Speech CompositionF. S. Crofts & Company, 1937 - 385 pages |
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... words , " said Rudyard Kipling , addressing the Royal College of Surgeons , " and words are , of course , the most powerful drug used by mankind . Not only do words infect , egotize , narcotize , and paralyze , but they enter into and ...
... words , " said Rudyard Kipling , addressing the Royal College of Surgeons , " and words are , of course , the most powerful drug used by mankind . Not only do words infect , egotize , narcotize , and paralyze , but they enter into and ...
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... words because we are more interested in making people understand us than we are in parading our learn- ing .. If a young man used big words to assure his sweetheart of his affection , she would never understand him , but the word love ...
... words because we are more interested in making people understand us than we are in parading our learn- ing .. If a young man used big words to assure his sweetheart of his affection , she would never understand him , but the word love ...
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... words , then it will be an advantage to express it in the smallest number of syllables . . . . Hence , the shortness of Saxon words becomes a reason for their greater force . " 22 The practice of most Englishmen and Americans ...
... words , then it will be an advantage to express it in the smallest number of syllables . . . . Hence , the shortness of Saxon words becomes a reason for their greater force . " 22 The practice of most Englishmen and Americans ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
THE SPEAKERS PERSONAL PROBLEMS | 9 |
THE SPEECH PURPOSE | 52 |
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accept action American answer appeal argument arises arrangement attention audience authority become beginning believe called campaign carry cause Chapter common conclusion consider course demand desire develop discussion effective elements example experience expression facts feel give given hand Harry Emerson Fosdick hear hearers human idea illustration important influence interest introduction kind less listeners living material means method mind nature never object observe occasion once persuasion picture political possible practice preparation present principle problem Project proposition question reason response sentence sermon short situation social speaker speaking specific speech step student style suggestion tell things thought tion topic understand vivid wants whole words write York young