How to speak, how to listen

✍ Scribed by Mortimer J. Adler

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 204
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gives the reader a short course in effective communication filled with the Adler wisdom and wit.

Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.

Drawing on decades of experience as educator and philosopher, Mortimer J. Adler gives the listener a short course in effective communication filled with the Adler wisdom and wit. Both instructive and practical, How to Speak, How to Listen will be invaluable to everyone: salespeople and executives involved in conferences and negotiations, politicians, lecturers, and teachers, as well as families seeking to improve communication among themselves.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents

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

✦ Subjects

Oral communication -- Oral communication;SELF-HELP / Communication & Social Skills