How to Speak How to ListenSimon and Schuster, 1 de abr. de 1997 - 288 páginas Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively. With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book. In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler 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. |
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... better than others; they have more skill in doing so, either through talent or through training or both. But even the most skilled writing remains ineffective when it falls into the hands of unskilled readers. We all realize that the ...
... better than others; they have more skill in doing so, either through talent or through training or both. But even the most skilled writing remains ineffective when it falls into the hands of unskilled readers. We all realize that the ...
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... better they were able to listen, the more they were able to learn. In the great mediaeval universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Paris, Padua, and Cologne, basic schooling involved training in the arts or skills that were first called ...
... better they were able to listen, the more they were able to learn. In the great mediaeval universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Paris, Padua, and Cologne, basic schooling involved training in the arts or skills that were first called ...
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... better job of it. One can improve one's reading endlessly, by reading something over and over again. I have done this in my own reading of the great books. In writing, one is always able to revise and improve what one has written. No ...
... better job of it. One can improve one's reading endlessly, by reading something over and over again. I have done this in my own reading of the great books. In writing, one is always able to revise and improve what one has written. No ...
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... better job of speaking at some later time, but on a particular occasion, whatever excellence one is able to achieve must be achieved right then and there. Similarly, there is no way of improving one's listening on a given occasion. It ...
... better job of speaking at some later time, but on a particular occasion, whatever excellence one is able to achieve must be achieved right then and there. Similarly, there is no way of improving one's listening on a given occasion. It ...
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... better reason and to deviate from the truth if that is necessary in order to succeed. In ancient Greece, the sophists were teachers of rhetoric for the purpose of winning lawsuits. Each citizen who engaged in litigation had to act as ...
... better reason and to deviate from the truth if that is necessary in order to succeed. In ancient Greece, the sophists were teachers of rhetoric for the purpose of winning lawsuits. Each citizen who engaged in litigation had to act as ...
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The Sales Talk and Other Forms of Persuasive Speech | |
Lectures and Other Forms of Instructive Speech | |
Preparing and Delivering a Speech | |
PART THREE SILENT LISTENING | |
Forums | |
The Variety of Conversations | |
How to Make Conversation Profitable and Pleasurable | |
The Meeting of Minds | |
Teaching and Learning by Discussion | |
Conversation in Human Life | |
The Harvey Cushing Memorial Oration | |
The Twelve Days of the Aspen Executive Seminar | |
With the Minds | |
Writing While and After Listening | |
PART FOUR TWOWAY TALK | |
Seminars for Young People | |
ABOUT MORTIMER J ADLER | |
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