Speech CompositionAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1953 - 385 pages |
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Page 124
... hold it ? Said Walter Dill Scott : All our thinking is done in " spurts " which are uniformly followed by periods of inactivity . We can think of nothing consecutively for any great length of time . What we have called constant or fixed ...
... hold it ? Said Walter Dill Scott : All our thinking is done in " spurts " which are uniformly followed by periods of inactivity . We can think of nothing consecutively for any great length of time . What we have called constant or fixed ...
Page 127
... hold all wars between nations to be mere incidents to labor in its struggle against the master class . I condemn ... holds attention , all are agreed , but it can be a disadvanta- geous attention , one that descends to a clownish level ...
... hold all wars between nations to be mere incidents to labor in its struggle against the master class . I condemn ... holds attention , all are agreed , but it can be a disadvanta- geous attention , one that descends to a clownish level ...
Page 131
... hold their interest . Of course , if the familiar is misused , it can lead to triteness or staleness , which some one has defined as " saying an old thing in an old way at an expected time . " But a speech will not ordinarily be trite ...
... hold their interest . Of course , if the familiar is misused , it can lead to triteness or staleness , which some one has defined as " saying an old thing in an old way at an expected time . " But a speech will not ordinarily be trite ...
Contents
THE SEVEN Lamps OF SPEECH Development | 3 |
THE SPEAKERS PERSONAL PROBLEMS | 9 |
THE SPEECH PURPOSE | 32 |
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