Tell why concentration naturally helps a speaker to change pitch,tempo, and emphasis.
Read the your selection through to get its meaning and spirit clearly in your mind. Then read it aloud, concentrating solely on the thought that you are expressing--do not trouble about the sentence or thought that is coming. Half the troubles of mankind arise from anticipating trials that never occur. Avoid this in speaking. Make the end of your sentences just as strong as the beginning. _CONCENTRATE._
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Change of Inflections News
Deliver the two following public speaking selections with great earnestness, and note how the inflections differ from the foregoing. Then reread these selections in a light, superficial manner, noting that the change of attitude is expressed through a change of inflection.
When I read a sublime fact in Plutarch, or an unselfish deed in a line of poetry, or thrill beneath some heroic legend, it is no longer fairyland--I have seen it matched.
--WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.
--CRANCH
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When I read a sublime fact in Plutarch, or an unselfish deed in a line of poetry, or thrill beneath some heroic legend, it is no longer fairyland--I have seen it matched.
--WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.
--CRANCH
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Monday, August 27, 2007
Communication Presentation Skills News
You must not confuse the pause for emphasis with the natural pauses that come through taking breath and phrasing. For example, note the pauses indicated in this selection from Byron:
But _hush!_--_hark!_--that deep sound breaks in once more, And _nearer!_--_clearer!_--_deadlier_ than before._Arm_, ARM!--it is--it is the cannon's opening roar!
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But _hush!_--_hark!_--that deep sound breaks in once more, And _nearer!_--_clearer!_--_deadlier_ than before._Arm_, ARM!--it is--it is the cannon's opening roar!
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Good Presentation Skills News
"This man, my friends, has made this wonderful sacrifice--for you and me."
Did not the pause surprisingly enhance the power of this statement? See how he gathered up reserve force and impressiveness to deliver the words"for you and me." Repeat this passage without making a pause. Did it lose in effectiveness?
Naturally enough, during a premeditated pause of this kind the mind of the speaker is concentrated on the thought to which he is about to give expression. He will not dare to allow his thoughts to wander for an instant--he will rather supremely center his thought and his emotion upon the sacrifice whose service, sweetness and divinity he is enforcing by his appeal.
_Concentration_, then, is the big word here--no pause without it can perfectly hit the mark.
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Did not the pause surprisingly enhance the power of this statement? See how he gathered up reserve force and impressiveness to deliver the words"for you and me." Repeat this passage without making a pause. Did it lose in effectiveness?
Naturally enough, during a premeditated pause of this kind the mind of the speaker is concentrated on the thought to which he is about to give expression. He will not dare to allow his thoughts to wander for an instant--he will rather supremely center his thought and his emotion upon the sacrifice whose service, sweetness and divinity he is enforcing by his appeal.
_Concentration_, then, is the big word here--no pause without it can perfectly hit the mark.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Emphasis in Public Speaking Blog
KNOWING THE PRICE WE MUST PAY, THE SACRIFICE WE MUST MAKE, THE BURDENS WE MUST CARRY, THE ASSAULTS WE MUST ENDURE--KNOWING FULL WELL THE COST--yet we enlist, and we enlist for the war. FOR WE KNOW THE JUSTICE OF OUR CAUSE, and we know, too, its certain triumph
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NOT RELUCTANTLY THEN, but eagerly_, not with _faint hearts BUT STRONG, do we now advance upon the enemies of the people. FOR THE CALL THAT COMES TO US is the call that came to our fathers_. As they responded so shall we.
"_HE HATH SOUNDED FORTH A TRUMPET that shall never call retreat. HE IS SIFTING OUT THE HEARTS OF MEN before His judgment seat. OH, BE SWIFT OUR SOULS TO ANSWER HIM, BE JUBILANT OUR FEET,
Our God is marching on_."
--ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE.
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NOT RELUCTANTLY THEN, but eagerly_, not with _faint hearts BUT STRONG, do we now advance upon the enemies of the people. FOR THE CALL THAT COMES TO US is the call that came to our fathers_. As they responded so shall we.
"_HE HATH SOUNDED FORTH A TRUMPET that shall never call retreat. HE IS SIFTING OUT THE HEARTS OF MEN before His judgment seat. OH, BE SWIFT OUR SOULS TO ANSWER HIM, BE JUBILANT OUR FEET,
Our God is marching on_."
--ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Public Speaking Training Using Pitch Blog
Every Change in the Thought Demands a Change in the Voice-Pitch.
Whether the speaker follows the rule consciously, unconsciously, or subconsciously, this is the logical basis upon which all good voice variation is made, yet this law is violated more often than any other by_public_ speakers. A criminal may disregard a law of the state without detection and punishment, but the speaker who violates this regulation suffers its penalty at once in his loss of effectiveness, while his innocent hearers must endure the monotony--for monotony is not only a sin of the perpetrator, as we have shown, but a plague on the victims as well.
Whether the speaker follows the rule consciously, unconsciously, or subconsciously, this is the logical basis upon which all good voice variation is made, yet this law is violated more often than any other by_public_ speakers. A criminal may disregard a law of the state without detection and punishment, but the speaker who violates this regulation suffers its penalty at once in his loss of effectiveness, while his innocent hearers must endure the monotony--for monotony is not only a sin of the perpetrator, as we have shown, but a plague on the victims as well.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Effective Presentation Skills Blog
As a public speaker you can assist this emphasis of contrast with your voice. If you say, "My horse is not _black_," what color immediately comes into mind? White, naturally, for that is the opposite of black. If you wish to bring out the thought that destiny is a matter of choice,you can do so more effectively by first saying that "_DESTINY_ is _NOT_a matter of _CHANCE_." Is not the color of the horse impressed upon us more emphatically when you say, "My horse is _NOT BLACK_. He is _WHITE_"than it would be by hearing you assert merely that your horse is white?
It would be a boon to speech-making if speakers would conserve the attention of their audiences in the same way and emphasize only the words representing the important ideas. The average speaker will deliver the foregoing line on destiny with about the same amount of emphasis on each word. Instead of saying, "It is a matter of _CHOICE_," he will deliver it, "It is a matter of choice," or "_IT IS A MATTER OFCHOICE_"--both equally bad.
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It would be a boon to speech-making if speakers would conserve the attention of their audiences in the same way and emphasize only the words representing the important ideas. The average speaker will deliver the foregoing line on destiny with about the same amount of emphasis on each word. Instead of saying, "It is a matter of _CHOICE_," he will deliver it, "It is a matter of choice," or "_IT IS A MATTER OFCHOICE_"--both equally bad.
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
Communication Presentation Skill Blog
Emerson says, "The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety." That is just what the monotonous speaker fails to do--he does _not_ detach one thought or phrase from another, they are all expressed in the same manner.
To tell you that your speech is monotonous may mean very little to you,so let us look at the nature--and the curse--of monotony in other spheres of life, then we shall appreciate more fully how it will blightan otherwise good speech.
To tell you that your speech is monotonous may mean very little to you,so let us look at the nature--and the curse--of monotony in other spheres of life, then we shall appreciate more fully how it will blightan otherwise good speech.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Public Speaking Skills News
In public speech, as in electricity, there is a positive and a negative force. Either you or your audience are going to possess the positive factor. If you assume it you can almost invariably make it yours. If you assume the negative you are sure to be negative. Assuming a virtue or a vice vitalizes it. Summon all your power of self-direction, and remember that though your audience is infinitely more important than you, the truth is more important than both of you, because it is eternal.
If your mind falters in its leadership during a speech the sword will drop from your hands. Your assumption of being able to instruct or lead or inspire a multitude or even a small group of people may appall you as being colossal impudence--as indeed it may be; but having once essayed to speak, be courageous. _BE_ courageous--it lies within you to be what you will._MAKE_ yourself be calm and confident.
If your mind falters in its leadership during a speech the sword will drop from your hands. Your assumption of being able to instruct or lead or inspire a multitude or even a small group of people may appall you as being colossal impudence--as indeed it may be; but having once essayed to speak, be courageous. _BE_ courageous--it lies within you to be what you will._MAKE_ yourself be calm and confident.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Speaking Before An Audience News Bulletin
Practise, _practise_, _PRACTISE_ in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practise in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
All we can do here is to offer you suggestions as to how best to prepare for your plunge into public speaking. The real plunge no one can take for you. A doctor may prescribe, but _you_ must take the medicine.
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All we can do here is to offer you suggestions as to how best to prepare for your plunge into public speaking. The real plunge no one can take for you. A doctor may prescribe, but _you_ must take the medicine.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
CROWD INFLUENCING INFO
CHAPTER XXV--INFLUENCING THE CROWD
Success in business, in the last analysis, turns upon touching the imagination of crowds. The reason that preachers in this present generation are less successful in getting people to want goodness than business men are in getting them to want motorcars, hats, and pianolas, is that business men as a class are more close and desperate students of human nature, and have boned down harder to the art of touching the imaginations of the crowds.
--GERALD STANLEY LEE, _Crowds_.
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Success in business, in the last analysis, turns upon touching the imagination of crowds. The reason that preachers in this present generation are less successful in getting people to want goodness than business men are in getting them to want motorcars, hats, and pianolas, is that business men as a class are more close and desperate students of human nature, and have boned down harder to the art of touching the imaginations of the crowds.
--GERALD STANLEY LEE, _Crowds_.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
GESTURE News
CHAPTER XV--THE TRUTH ABOUT GESTURE
When Whitefield acted an old blind man advancing by slow steps toward the edge of the precipice, Lord Chesterfield started up and cried: "Good God, he is gone!"
--NATHAN SHEPPARD, _Before an Audience_.
Gesture is really a simple matter that requires observation and commonsense rather than a book of rules. Gesture is an outward expression of an inward condition. It is merely an effect--the effect of a mental or an emotional impulse struggling for expression through physical avenues.
When Whitefield acted an old blind man advancing by slow steps toward the edge of the precipice, Lord Chesterfield started up and cried: "Good God, he is gone!"
--NATHAN SHEPPARD, _Before an Audience_.
Gesture is really a simple matter that requires observation and commonsense rather than a book of rules. Gesture is an outward expression of an inward condition. It is merely an effect--the effect of a mental or an emotional impulse struggling for expression through physical avenues.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Public Speaking Using Pace
CHAPTER V--EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PACE
The Latins have bequeathed to us a word that has no precise equivalent in our tongue, therefore we have accepted it, body unchanged--it is the word _tempo_, and means _rate of movement_, as measured by the time consumed in executing that movement.
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The Latins have bequeathed to us a word that has no precise equivalent in our tongue, therefore we have accepted it, body unchanged--it is the word _tempo_, and means _rate of movement_, as measured by the time consumed in executing that movement.
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