=Generalization=This is one of the most effective devices in the public speaker's repertory.
Take a hollow cylinder, the bottom closed while the top remains open, and pour in water to the height of a few inches. Next cover the water with a flat plate or piston, which fits the interior of the cylinder perfectly; then apply heat to the water, and we shall witness the following phenomena. After the lapse of some minutes the water will begin to boil, and the steam accumulating at the upper surface will make room for itself by raising the piston slightly. As the boiling continues, more and more steam will be formed, and raise the piston higher and higher, till all the water is boiled away, and nothing but steam is left in the cylinder. Now this machine, consisting of cylinder, piston, water, and fire, is the steam-engine in its most elementary form. For a steam-engine may be defined as an apparatus for doing work by means of heat applied to water; and since raising such a weight as the piston is a form of doing work, this apparatus, clumsy and inconvenient though it may be, answers the definition precisely.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Exposition Methods Blog
The following is a simple example:
To expound is to set forth the nature, the significance, the characteristics, and the bearing of an idea or a group of ideas.
--ARLO BATES, _Talks on Writing English_.
=Contrast and Antithesis= are often used effectively to amplify definition, as in this sentence, which immediately follows the above-cited definition:
Exposition therefore differs from Description in that it deals directly with the meaning or intent of its subject instead of with its appearance.
To expound is to set forth the nature, the significance, the characteristics, and the bearing of an idea or a group of ideas.
--ARLO BATES, _Talks on Writing English_.
=Contrast and Antithesis= are often used effectively to amplify definition, as in this sentence, which immediately follows the above-cited definition:
Exposition therefore differs from Description in that it deals directly with the meaning or intent of its subject instead of with its appearance.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Public Delivery Material Daily Updates
From a private or a public library gather enough authoritative material on one of the following questions to build an outline for a twenty-minute address. Take one definite side of the question,
(_a_)"The Housing of the Poor;"
(_b_) "The Commission Form of Government for Cities as a Remedy for Political Graft;"
(_c_) "The Test of Woman's Suffrage in the West;"
(_d_) "Present Trends of Public Taste in Reading;"
(_e_) "Municipal Art;"
(_f_) "Is the Theatre Becoming more Elevated in Tone?"
(_g_) "The Effects of the Magazine on Literature;"
(_h_) "Does Modern Life Destroy Ideals?"
(_i_) "Is Competition 'the Life of Trade?'"
(_j_) "Baseball is too Absorbing to be a Wholesome National Game;"
(_k_) "Summer Baseball and Amateur Standing;"
(_l_) "Does College Training Unfit a Woman for Domestic Life?"
(_m_) "Does Woman's Competition with Man in Business Dull the Spirit of Chivalry?"
(_n_)"Are Elective Studies Suited to High School Courses?"
(_o_) "Does theModern College Prepare Men for Preeminent Leadership?"
(_p_) "The Y.M.C.A. in Its Relation to the Labor Problem;"
(_q_) "Public Speaking as Training in Citizenship."
(_a_)"The Housing of the Poor;"
(_b_) "The Commission Form of Government for Cities as a Remedy for Political Graft;"
(_c_) "The Test of Woman's Suffrage in the West;"
(_d_) "Present Trends of Public Taste in Reading;"
(_e_) "Municipal Art;"
(_f_) "Is the Theatre Becoming more Elevated in Tone?"
(_g_) "The Effects of the Magazine on Literature;"
(_h_) "Does Modern Life Destroy Ideals?"
(_i_) "Is Competition 'the Life of Trade?'"
(_j_) "Baseball is too Absorbing to be a Wholesome National Game;"
(_k_) "Summer Baseball and Amateur Standing;"
(_l_) "Does College Training Unfit a Woman for Domestic Life?"
(_m_) "Does Woman's Competition with Man in Business Dull the Spirit of Chivalry?"
(_n_)"Are Elective Studies Suited to High School Courses?"
(_o_) "Does theModern College Prepare Men for Preeminent Leadership?"
(_p_) "The Y.M.C.A. in Its Relation to the Labor Problem;"
(_q_) "Public Speaking as Training in Citizenship."
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Speaking Material Info
Unsuspected treasures lie in the smallest library. Even when the owner has read every last page of his books it is only in rare instances that he has full indexes to all of them, either in his mind or on paper, so as to make available the vast number of varied subjects touched upon or treated in volumes whose titles would never suggest such topics.
For this reason it is a good thing to take an odd hour now and then to browse. Take down one volume after another and look over its table of contents and its index. (It is a reproach to any author of a serious book not to have provided a full index, with cross references.) Then glance over the pages, making notes, mental or physical, of material that looks interesting and usable. Most libraries contain volumes that the owner is "going to read some day." A familiarity with even the contents of such books on your own shelves will enable you to refer to them when you want help. Writings read long ago should be treated in the same way--in every chapter some surprise lurks to delight you.
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For this reason it is a good thing to take an odd hour now and then to browse. Take down one volume after another and look over its table of contents and its index. (It is a reproach to any author of a serious book not to have provided a full index, with cross references.) Then glance over the pages, making notes, mental or physical, of material that looks interesting and usable. Most libraries contain volumes that the owner is "going to read some day." A familiarity with even the contents of such books on your own shelves will enable you to refer to them when you want help. Writings read long ago should be treated in the same way--in every chapter some surprise lurks to delight you.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Presentation Daily Blog
Subject and materials tremendously influence each other.
"This arises from the fact that there are two distinct ways in which a subject may be chosen: by arbitrary choice, or by development from thought and reading.
"Arbitrary choice ... of one subject from among a number involves so many important considerations that no speaker ever fails to appreciate the tone of satisfaction in him who triumphantly announces: 'I have a subject!'
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"This arises from the fact that there are two distinct ways in which a subject may be chosen: by arbitrary choice, or by development from thought and reading.
"Arbitrary choice ... of one subject from among a number involves so many important considerations that no speaker ever fails to appreciate the tone of satisfaction in him who triumphantly announces: 'I have a subject!'
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Presentation News Info
Above all, seek reading that makes you use your own brains. Such reading must be alive with fresh points of view, packed with special knowledge, and deal with subjects of vital interest. Do not confine your reading to what you already know you will agree with. Opposition wakes one up. The other road may be the better, but you will never know it unless you "give it the once over." Do not do all your thinking and investigating in front of given "Q.E.D.'s;" merely assembling reasons to fill in between your theorem and what you want to prove will get you nowhere. Approach each subject with an open mind and--once sure that you have thought it out thoroughly and honestly--have the courage to abide by the decision of your own thought. But don't brag about it afterward.
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