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Show 65 FIRST AIM: PURPOSE Procedure. When the purpose of the author has been decided a discus upon, there should be a careful reading of the text, with sion of any moot points and a denotation of any difficulties which may stand in the way of clear mind that the detail should be tail must never Be Direct. wag the comprehension. Always keep in kept in proper relationship-the dog. The student is more than likely to talk to the floor, ceiling, the landscape outside the window, back into. his own brain, and in fact anywhere but to his audience. Therefore, it is he may get his necessary to train him first to be direct, so that the message or purpose to his audience. Directness is the element which makes the message reach the hearer, and gives it the punch to make it stick. A rubber stamp will leave no imprint on the merely rests there-it must be pressed. Speaking must This is a or it will leave no imprint on the hearer. rule by which one may keep an audience from going to sleep: "Be not aggressive but impressive." Aim to kill and see that your paper if it be impressive purpose hits the mark. To be direct is to focus. be chosen to this end. Selections should emphasize speaker must always keep his eyes in touch with the eyes of the class, but he must avoid making anyone person self-con scious and uncomfortable by singling him out and giving the en tire message to him. Eye, voice, and body of the speaker should be free to take in comprehensively and feel the reaction from the entire class-audience. Winans says on this point, "The effect of the contact. The eye is quite as important as the voice in maintaining No hearers at his should look dodging will do; squarely. speaker no looking just over their heads, or down the aisle, or at a friendly True speech is a dialogue; better than talking to us is post. The . .. 3 talking with us." In reading dialogue, the eye should meet the eyes of the imagi were present. nary person addressed as directly as if the person The eye tells the audience the height of the person and distance of the person from the speaker. I t is advisable to keep a class upon one aim until the instructor is quite sure even if the student has not thoroughly mastered that 3 James A. Winans, Public Speaking-The Century Company. |
