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Choosing Powerful Words Eloquence That Works

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ISBN-10: 0205271243

ISBN-13: 9780205271245

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ronald H. Carpenter

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Discover the stylistic techniques behind influential speeches! Design speeches so that listeners anticipate key words Depart from the common idiom by using "rhetorical shorthand" Create credibility without a publicity advantage Under the influence of the media, it is easy to forget the tremendous impact of the speaker on an audience. Today's media enables speakers who once addressed hundreds in auditoriums to increase their public to millions through television. Dr. Carpenter's relevant research and careful scholarship about how to pick the best words and arrange them in the best orders will help the speaker become a stylist and slogan-maker whose sentences may become sound bites on…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/12/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Orality, Rhetoric, and Eloquence
Antitheses Everywhere
Content and Credibility
Metaphor: The Rhetorical Shorthand
Repeating and Omitting - Point and Counterpoint
The Power of Placement
About Delivery