Excerpt from Basic Principles of Speech I. Even more than the previous editions, it is concerned primarily with the fundamentals of speech with the principles, Skills, and body of knowl edge common and basic to all oral communication, whether private or pub lic, original or interpretative. It deals with extemporaneous public address, discussion, and oral reading not as distinctly separate areas but as somewhat differing modes of communicating ideas and feelings through speech. It thus meets the basic needs both of students who will take advanced courses in speech and of those for whom the first course will be the only course. 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.