Speech CompositionAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1953 - 385 pages |
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Page 166
... argument is often ineffective . In no sense is it meant that argument is not important . A speaker who defies all reason insults every intelligent person in the audience and makes the honest doubter lose faith in him and his cause ...
... argument is often ineffective . In no sense is it meant that argument is not important . A speaker who defies all reason insults every intelligent person in the audience and makes the honest doubter lose faith in him and his cause ...
Page 167
... argument , but I lost a case . Why ? Because I provoked an argument . Again , take the case of intercollegiate debates . Does one side ever drive their opponents , even secretly , to admit themselves in error ? Neither side ever tries ...
... argument , but I lost a case . Why ? Because I provoked an argument . Again , take the case of intercollegiate debates . Does one side ever drive their opponents , even secretly , to admit themselves in error ? Neither side ever tries ...
Page 257
... argument , and your argument as true as the truth itself , then you have helped them a great deal . . . . Then they are a very great help in carrying away and remembering the things your audience have heard from you ; because it is true ...
... argument , and your argument as true as the truth itself , then you have helped them a great deal . . . . Then they are a very great help in carrying away and remembering the things your audience have heard from you ; because it is true ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
THE SPEAKERS PERSONAL PROBLEMS | 9 |
THE SPEECH PURPOSE | 52 |
Copyright | |
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