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Some words on tone from Winter
Posted in general-speech, public-speakingThe common trouble in using the voice for the more vigorous or intense
forms of speaking is a contraction or straining of the throat. This
impedes the free flow of voice, causing impaired tone, poor
enunciation, and unhealthy physical conditions. Students should,
therefore, be constantly warned against the least beginnings of this
fault. The earlier indications of it may not be observed, or the nature
of the trouble may not be known, by the untrained speaker.
But it ought to have, from the first, the attention of a skilled teacher Read the rest of this entry »
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An Excerpt from The Art of Speaking by Kleiser
Posted in Great Presenters, public-speaking, speech writingTHE ART OF SPEAKING
There would be no end were I to expatiate to the limit of my inclination on the subject of the gift of speech and its utility. I shall pass, therefore, to the following question, "Whether rhetoric be an art?" Those who wrote rules for eloquence doubted so little its being so, that they prefixt no other title to their books than "The art of speaking." Cicero says Read the rest of this entry »
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