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How to speak, how to listen /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1997.Edition: 1st Touchstone edDescription: viii, 280 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0684846470
  • 9780684846477
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • P95 .A26 1997
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: Gives the reader a short course in effective communication filled with the Adler wisdom and wit.
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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.

Gives the reader a short course in effective communication filled with the Adler wisdom and wit.

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