Speak With Power and Grace: A Woman's Guide to Public SpeakingPublic speaking can be a terrifying prospect for anyone, but for women it can be particularly painful. Whether giving a departmental presentation or a graduation address, women have often found themselves frightened and unprepared for the speech, despite a firm knowledge of their subject. "Speak with Power and Grace" covers all aspects of speech giving and will empower any woman who wants her words to be taken seriously. |
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Table des matières
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Visual Aids I See What Youre Saying | 95 |
The Communication Process | 169 |
HumorNo Laughing Matter | 178 |
The Executive Briefing | 189 |
Meeting the Media | 198 |
Making an Introduction | 205 |
Serving as Emcee | 212 |
Persuasive Speeches | 219 |
Special Occasions | 225 |
Practice Makes Perfect | 113 |
Platform Techniques and Etiquette | 120 |
Special Concerns for Women at the Lectern | 140 |
Conclusion | 238 |
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Speak With Power and Grace: A Woman's Guide to Public Speaking Linda D. Swink Aucun aperçu disponible - 1999 |
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Page 141 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 3 - You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Page 85 - Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock.
Page 54 - I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Page 141 - Yes, if you'd be well-bred; — all well-bred persons lie. — Besides, you are a woman, you must never speak what you think: your words must contradict your thoughts ; but your actions may contradict your words. So, when I ask you, if you can love me, you must say no, but you must love me too. If I tell you you are handsome, you must deny it, and say I flatter you. But you must think yourself more charming than I speak you: and like me, for the beauty which I say you have, as much as if I had it...
Page 31 - Dean Kagan, distinguished faculty, parents, friends, graduating seniors, Secret Service agents, class agents, people of class, people of color, colorful people, people of height, the vertically constrained, people of hair, the differently coiffed, the optically challenged, the temporarily sighted, the insightful, the out of sight, the out-of-towners, the Eurocentrics, the Afrocentrics, the Afrocentrics with Eurailpasses, the eccentrically inclined, the sexually disinclined, people of sex, sexy people,...
Page 205 - Things (Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.
Page 178 - Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Page xii - ... talking and eloquence are not the same : to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Page 181 - ... the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Speak With Power and Grace: A Woman's Guide to Public Speaking Woman's Guide to Public Speaking |
| Auteur | Linda D. Swink |
| Édition | réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Citadel Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0806519134, 9780806519135 |
| Longueur | 245 pages |
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