Monday 9 November 2009

[WEEK VIII] - BOOK SUMMARY

"Say It Like Shakespeare" by Thomas Leech is a book that focuses on public speaking domain in which the targeted audience, which are teens and adults in general, are exposed to several situations and conditions related to public speaking and the solutions to overcome certain problems as viewed by world's famous speakers such as Shakespeare, Henry V and Socrates.

There are 4 main topics or phases that are discussed in this book which is the introduction of public speaking, implementing ideas and catching audience's attention while speaking, verbal communication techniques and non-verbal communication techniques.

In terms of the structure itself, the book is written in such an unique format where every subtopics in each section is started with a quotation from a famous speaker and following after the quotation is a series of explanations and within explanations, some other quotations to support the main idea are implemented to give clearer example on the subject matter.

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