How to Speak How to Listen
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 1997
288 pages
978-1-4391-0489-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide 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.
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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Dr. Mortimer J. Adler was Chairman of the Board of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Honorary Trustee of the Aspen Institute, and authored more than fifty books. He died in 2001.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Part One: Prologue
- Chapter I. The Untaught Skills
- Chapter II. The Solitary and the Social
- Part Two: Uninterrupted Speech
- Chapter III. "That's Just Rhetoric!"
- Chapter IV. The "Sales Talk" and Other Forms of Persuasive Speech
- Chapter V. Lectures and Other Forms of Instructive Speech
- Chapter VI. Preparing and Delivering a Speech
- Part Three: Silent Listening
- Chapter VII. With the Mind's Ear
- Chapter VIII. Writing While and After Listening
- Part Four: Two-Way Talk
- Chapter IX. Question and Answer Sessions: Forums
- Chapter X. The Variety of Conversations
- Chapter XI. How to Make Conversation Profitable and Pleasurable
- Chapter XII. The Meeting of Minds
- Chapter XIII. Seminars: Teaching and Learning by Discussion
- Part Five: Epilogue
- Chapter XIV. Conversation in Human Life
- Appendices
- Appendix I. The Harvey Cushing Memorial Oration
- Appendix II. The Twelve Days of the Aspen Executive Seminar
- Appendix III. Seminars for Young People
- About Mortimer J. Adler
- Copyright
