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Author Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.

Title How to speak, how to listen / Mortimer J. Adler.

Edition First Touchstone edition.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1554152~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  302.2242 ADL    DUE 04-28-24
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  302.2242 ADL    TRACE
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Description viii, 280 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published: New York : Macmillan, c1983.
Companion volume to: How to read a book.
Contents The untaught skills -- The solitary and the social -- "That's just rhetoric!" -- The "sales talk" and other forms of persuasive speech -- Lectures and other forms of instructive speech -- Preparing and delivering a speech -- With the mind's ear -- Writing while and after listening -- Question and answer sessions : forums -- The variety of conversations -- How to make conversation profitable and pleasurable -- The meeting of minds -- Seminars : teaching and learning by discussion -- Conversation in human life.
Summary 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.
Subject Oral communication -- Popular works.
Listening.
Public speaking.
ISBN 9780684846477
0684846470
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