Better Themes: A College Textbook of Writing and Re-writingHarcourt, Brace, 1936 - 416 pages |
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Page 63
... speech , but of one thing you can be sure : you will not make a fool of yourself . Remember , too , that oratory is no longer fashionable . Only second - rate lawyers , ministers , actors , and politicians try nowadays to make the ...
... speech , but of one thing you can be sure : you will not make a fool of yourself . Remember , too , that oratory is no longer fashionable . Only second - rate lawyers , ministers , actors , and politicians try nowadays to make the ...
Page 64
... speech is essential if one would be understood . Don't drawl ; don't rush ahead , running one word into the next ; don't speak with flat lips . Use your lips . You can't enunciate properly ... speech , I pray you , as I 64 MAKING A SPEECH.
... speech is essential if one would be understood . Don't drawl ; don't rush ahead , running one word into the next ; don't speak with flat lips . Use your lips . You can't enunciate properly ... speech , I pray you , as I 64 MAKING A SPEECH.
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... speech may come to him or they may not . He may , like Ernest Hemingway , deliberately avoid them much of the time ... speech was ever born with outside advice acting as midwife . Rhythm . If a student finds figures of speech beyond him ...
... speech may come to him or they may not . He may , like Ernest Hemingway , deliberately avoid them much of the time ... speech was ever born with outside advice acting as midwife . Rhythm . If a student finds figures of speech beyond him ...
Contents
CLEARING THE GROUND | 3 |
TOPICS FOR THEMES | 14 |
WRITING THE THEME | 23 |
Copyright | |
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