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Voice and Public Speaking

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Voice and Public Speaking by John Poole Sandlands is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to improve their speaking skills. The author provides practical tips and exercises to help readers become more confident and effective communicators.

One of the strengths of this book is the focus on the importance of voice in public speaking. Sandlands explains how vocal tone, pitch, and pacing can all have a significant impact on the effectiveness of a speech. By providing exercises and techniques to improve vocal delivery, readers can learn how to make their words more engaging and persuasive.

In addition to focusing on the technical aspects of speaking, the author also addresses the psychological barriers that can hold people back from speaking with confidence. Sandlands offers strategies for overcoming fear and anxiety, as well as tips for maintaining composure during a speech.

Overall, Voice and Public Speaking is a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their communication skills. Whether you are a beginner looking to overcome stage fright or an experienced speaker looking to fine-tune your delivery, this book offers practical advice and exercises to help you become a more effective public speaker.

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I write for public speakers. I wish to take them into my confidence. I feel I can do them good. My object is to help them to speak with greater ease and efficiency.

When the voice is developed and in a condition to answer the calls made upon it, then it will naturally seek to put its powers into operation.... Develop the powers of the voice and it will not be satisfied till it find scope for their exercise. This is a marvellous feature of the human voice, and yet, perhaps, it is more or less common to all the powers we possess. Whenever we develop a power, whatever it be, nothing gives us greater pleasure than the exercise of it. Every artist thinks his own art the most sublime. The painter prefers painting, and the musician music; yet there does seem a diviner charm and more real pleasure in exercising the powers of the voice. Holding the opinion as I do, that if the voice be developed it will perform its work aright, it will be my object to notice and dilate upon those principles which, when worked out, go to form the voice. It may be taken for granted that the voice is with most people — and not less with many public speakers — all out of order. Its parts need adjusting. When this is accomplished, it only remains to say, Here is the work, do it.

My object is to notice and explain those principles, which, to my mind, underlie the rhetorical art. I have written in the simplest language, and this for two reasons, To make things quite clear. To spare, in this busy age, as much as possible, my reader’s time.

Experience convinces me, constantly more and more as I deal with students, that it is of the utmost importance that young men who are preparing in any way for public life, should make themselves acquainted with the principles laid down in it and acquire facility of application by practice. I am constantly hearing expressions similar to this — “Oh, if I had only known twenty years ago, what you tell me, how much better a man I should be to-day!” I could say this of myself, too, and that without blushing. - Summary taken from preface and introduction


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