Tongue-tied America : reviving the art of verbal persuasion /
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Language: | English |
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Austin [Tex.] : New York :
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business ; Aspen Publishers,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Our case : the abiding importance of speech
- The canons of persuasion
- The rainbow of rhetorical formats
- Writing the spoken word
- Hallmarks of distinguished delivery : bringing a speech to life
- Tools of the trade : voice and breath
- Using visual aids
- Gender and persuasion
- Generational issues
- To sum it up : checklists on the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Rhetoric in court
- Oral communications in the workplace
- The effects of technology on communications skills
- The rhetoric of presidential campaigns
- Rhetoric gone haywire
- Rhetoric of the greatest speeches.