Publisher: Fall River Press
Publication date: 01/31/2019
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)
Successful public speaking involves a variety of essential skills, including precision, concentration, and efficiency in pace, tone, and emphasis. Readers have relied on this invaluable guide for more than a century to take their abilities to the next level. The information and techniques remain timeless, and Carnegie also provides key questions and exercises at the end of the chapters to further help you make clear presentations and get your point across.
Table of Contents
Thing To Think of First-A Foreword ix
Chapter I Acquiring Confidence Before an Audience 1
Chapter II The Sin of Monotony 8
Chapter III Efficiency Through Emphasis and Subordination 13
Chapter IV Efficiency Through Change of Pitch 22
Chapter V Efficiency Through Change of Pace 32
Chapter VI Pause and Power 45
Chapter VII Efficiency Through Inflection 56
Chapter VIII Concentration in Delivery 65
Chapter IX Force 70
Chapter X Feeling and Enthuslam 81
Chapter XI Fluency Through Preparation 92
Chapter XII The Voice 100
Chapter XIII Voice Charm 108
Chapter XIV Distinctness and Precision of Utterance 118
Chapter XV The Truth about Gesture 126
Chapter XVI Methods of Delivery 136
Chapter XVII Thought and Reserve Power 148
Chapter XVIII Subject and Preparation 159
Chapter XIX Influencing by Exposition 174
Chapter XX Influencing by Description 184
Chapter XXI Influencing by Narration 198
Chapter XXII Influencing by Suggestion 208
Chapter XXIII Influencing by Argument 222
Chapter XXIV Influencing by Persuasion 234
Chapter XXV Influencing The Crowd 245
Chapter XXVI Riding The Winged Horse 256
Chapter XXVII Growing A Vocabulary 266
Chapter XXVIII Memory Training 273
Chapter XXIX Right Thinking and Personality 283
Chapter XXX After-Dinner and Other Occasional Speaking 288
Chapter XXXI Making Conversation Effective 296
Appendix A Fifty Questions for Debate 301
Appendix B Thirty Themes for Speeches 305
Appendix C Suggested Subject for Speeches 308
Appendix D Speeches For Study and Practise 315
General Index 423