Public Speaking (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Public Speaking<br><br>This book on public speaking attempts to provide fundamental rules and enough exercises to train members of a class to become effective speakers before audiences. It aims to be practical. The idea underlying the treatment is that the student will be continually doing much more speaking than studying. The greater part of most of the class sessions should be devoted to practice in speaking.<br><br>Teachers may not be able to use all the material and exercises in the volume. Omissions will be determined by local conditions and special purposes. It would be quite practicable to use the book during an entire term or year and go no farther than through Explaining (Chapter IX), reserving for the following term or year the remainder of the volume dealing with forms of argumentation.<br><br>The exercises are merely suggestive. They can be adapted easily to various conditions of locality, age, previous education, and personal interests of the members of the class. Their content, form, and purpose are the result of training both young and mature student speakers in classes in high school, law school, and university.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.