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Excerpt from Oral English: Directions and Exercises for Planning and Delivering the Common Kinds of Talks, Together With Guidance for Debating and Parliamentary Practice Oral English is taking its place in schools and colleges as a subject Independent both of literature and of written composition. Moreover, the study itself is changing, passing from practice in imitation of lofty masterpieces, with the elocutionary style, to direct, effective speaking without unnecessary adornment. Many authors still make oral work subsidiary to written composition, whereas speaking should be primary. Others plan to drill stu dents chiefly in vocal exercises, giving most of the time to prepa ration for talking and little to the talking itself. Many emphasize reproduction and neglect production. Some ground their exercises on the theory of general discipline, and neglect considerations of immediate utility and vocational needs. Few give the students the point of view of the modern, active man or woman of the world, who must talk a great deal and wishes to do it with businesslike simplicity and brevity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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