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How to Speak and Write with Humor

Percy H. Whiting

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Description:[Hardcover book-jacket description.]Anyone can learn to speak and write with humor. In this book, the reader can discover sure ways to develop humor for use in speeches, letters and conversation. Here Percy H. Whiting shows not only how to create witticisms but also how to deliver them—and in a way that will always produce laughter. He asks only that the reader makes serious effort to acquire humor (and reminds us that even born humorists like Fred Allen and Will Rodgers sometimes worked terribly hard at being funny).Mr. Whiting begins by showing how he himself developed the ability to produce humor for his speeches—and how others can use the same techniques. Humor, he says, is a discipline—largely learned through a systematic study and use of "humorous devices." With these devices—exaggeration, anticlimax, understatement, pomposities, insults, mutilated quotations, over-ornate language are some of them—Percy Whiting teaches you how to be funny. He gives explicit and tells exactly how to produce humor with these devices in particular speech situations.But humor is not what only what you do; it is what you must never do. Mr. Whiting spares no wrath on the cliché, and he puts slang and profanity under careful scrutiny. Sometimes the success of a humorous speech hangs on such a simple precaution as whether or not the banquet hall has been comfortably heated and well lighted. And the author advises the speaker to make sure beforehand that his P.A. system isn't noisy.Packed with much in common sense, experience, and expert know-how, How to Speak and Write with Humor can put sparkle and laughs into your speeches, conversations and letters.PERCY H. WHITING has successfully sold securities, has directed with notable results the Dale Carnegie Sales Courses, and has Written one of the most popular books of recent years on salesmanship, The 5 Great Rules of Selling.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How to Speak and Write with Humor. To get started finding How to Speak and Write with Humor, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 230

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

Release: 1959

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Description: [Hardcover book-jacket description.]Anyone can learn to speak and write with humor. In this book, the reader can discover sure ways to develop humor for use in speeches, letters and conversation. Here Percy H. Whiting shows not only how to create witticisms but also how to deliver them—and in a way that will always produce laughter. He asks only that the reader makes serious effort to acquire humor (and reminds us that even born humorists like Fred Allen and Will Rodgers sometimes worked terribly hard at being funny).Mr. Whiting begins by showing how he himself developed the ability to produce humor for his speeches—and how others can use the same techniques. Humor, he says, is a discipline—largely learned through a systematic study and use of "humorous devices." With these devices—exaggeration, anticlimax, understatement, pomposities, insults, mutilated quotations, over-ornate language are some of them—Percy Whiting teaches you how to be funny. He gives explicit and tells exactly how to produce humor with these devices in particular speech situations.But humor is not what only what you do; it is what you must never do. Mr. Whiting spares no wrath on the cliché, and he puts slang and profanity under careful scrutiny. Sometimes the success of a humorous speech hangs on such a simple precaution as whether or not the banquet hall has been comfortably heated and well lighted. And the author advises the speaker to make sure beforehand that his P.A. system isn't noisy.Packed with much in common sense, experience, and expert know-how, How to Speak and Write with Humor can put sparkle and laughs into your speeches, conversations and letters.PERCY H. WHITING has successfully sold securities, has directed with notable results the Dale Carnegie Sales Courses, and has Written one of the most popular books of recent years on salesmanship, The 5 Great Rules of Selling.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How to Speak and Write with Humor. To get started finding How to Speak and Write with Humor, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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