How to Speak, How to Listen

by Mortimer J. Adler

Book Overview

Explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020795904
• ISBN13: 9780020795902
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Must Read this book

Adler's book on speaking and listening will prepare you to have a proper conversation with others. You must read this book. Stan Faryna

The first 90 pages are worth their weight in gold!

This is the best book, bar none, that I have ever seen on this subject. Adler takes some of the classical Greek writers ideas about persuasive speaking and "updates" them, makes them more understandable, and provides concrete illustrations of how it is done. He helps you to better grasp the process of outlining, and provides an example of a speech he had given that employs the "methodology" of the text. Very readable, very insightful