How to Become a Public Speaker

How to Become a Public Speaker - Showing the best manner of arranging thought so as to gain

The time for the speech having arrived, we will now consider its separate parts. No division is better for our purpose than that employed in a previous part of this worka three-fold division into introduction, discussion, and conclusion. A good introduction is exceedingly valuable, and is to be sought for with great solicitude, if it does not spontaneously present itself. Some kind of an introduction is inevitable, for there will always be a first moment when silence is broken, and our thoughts introduced. The subsiding murmur of the audience tells the speaker that the time of his trial has come. If he is very sensitive, or if he has seldom, if ever, spoken before, his pulse beats fast, his face flushes, and an indescribable feeling of faintness and fear thrills every nerve. He may wish himself anywhere else, but there is now no help for him. He must arise, and for the time stand as the mark for all eyes and the subject of all thoughts. There is a vast difference between reciting and extemporizing in these opening moments, and the advantage seems to be altogether on the side of recitation. Every word is in its proper place and the speaker may be perfectly 144calm and self-collected. He is sure that his memory will not fail him in the opening, and encouraged by that assurance, will usually throw his whole power into his first sentences, causing his voice to ring clear and loud over the house. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53869
Author: Pittenger, William
Release Date: Jan 2, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English