Excerpt from How to Attract and Hold an Audience: A Popular Treatise on the Nature, Preparation, and Delivery of Public Discourse
This treatise aims to be suggestive, not exhaustive; practical, not theoretical; popular, not technical. With all this, it is believed that nothing essential to the public speaker in his effort to attract and hold an audience has been omitted or slighted. Fifteen years of experience have persuaded the author that, since comparatively few speakers have had opportunity to take a course in public speaking, such hints and helps as are here offered may find a welcome. The methods of the elocutionary manual have been discarded. Commonsense is a better substitute. The expositions and explanations are designed to be plain and straight-forward, assisting the speaker to find the way to the hearts of his audience.
The clearly marked divisions of the volume should add materially to its value as a text-book. The hortatory style here and there adopted is neither unusual nor unwarranted. The pupil as well as the teacher often needs a tonic.
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