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Choosing Powerful Words: Eloquence That Works (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)

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Great Wine makers provide pleasure to the palate, but my ears are in ecstasy thanks to Carpenter. If you are like me I did not understand antitheses, metaphors, point and counterpoint. I just enjoyed these techniques in a great speaker. Now I know how to add these great tools to my speeches and communications. This book opened up areas of speech writing I did not know existed. Having written thousands of pages of business reports I can't go back and do it over, but within hours I was applying these excellent new tools.

This is a great book. I purchased this book for Dr. Carpeneter's class at the University of Florida and I can attest that he knows his material. Whether you're using this book for simple toasts, business meetings, or public addresses, it will most certainly sharpen the stylistic content of your message.

I am always looking for books dealing with words and how to better use them. A recent trip to our local library paid big dividends. I discovered Carpenter's book "Choosing Powerful Words." Although the book was first published in 1998, the pages are filled with "The Essence of Public Speaking" the title of the series highly recommended by Toastmaster's International. Relevant for today's writer/speaker.

The "finale" information in the appendix on "delivery" is all important and provides the key to eloquence in wordsmithing. Carpenter captures the basic principles of mastering rhetoric, antithesis, and metaphor.

"Choosing Powerful Words" whetted my appetite for the rest of the books in this series.

Dry and overly technical. As an aspiring lawyer and an armchair orator, I didn't find very much that I could readily apply to the nuts and bolts of my speech writing or delivery.