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How to Talk: Meeting the Situations of Personal and Business Life and of Public Address

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I highly recommend this book to anyone studying the liberal arts, anyone that wants to become a better speaker both in social and formal settings, or anyone who has something to say but needs a good way to say it.

This book covers conversation and speaking in club or group settings, as well as the work environment. It even covers more private conversations like those between friends and family. But the real juice of this book starts with the self-training chapters, and the many chapters dealing with Delivery, with such helpful advice on matters ranging from enunciation to body posture; this book should be used in all schools today.

What is missing from this book on practical rhetoric are things like the Five Canons and the Topics of Invention which, although crucial to understanding the full potential of Rhetoric, can be learned about from Corbett and Connors' Classical Rhetoric For The Modern Student.

So, while this book may be a bit dated (some exercises use cultural items from the early 20th century), it mostly deals with a perpetually relevant subject--- Rhetoric.