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Choosing Powerful Words examines the importance of word choice and language in the public speaking process. A scholar and keen observer of political speeches, Carpenter offers his skilled insight into the power that words can wield and uses numerous examples as support. Choosing Powerful Words offers a lucid explanation of why certain arrangements of words are more effective than others. In addition, this text looks behind the scenes at famous and infamous speakers who have molded American life to illustrate the possibilities of powerful speaking.
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Under the influence of the media, it is easy to forget the tremendous impact of the speaker on an audience. Today's media enables speakers who once addressed hundreds in auditoriums to increase their public to millions through television. Dr. Carpenter's relevant research and careful scholarship about how to pick the best words and arrange them in the best orders will help the speaker become a stylist and slogan-maker whose sentences may become sound bites on the evening news or quoted in newspaper accounts the day after the speech has been made. This book prepares speakers to potentially change one little corner of the world - and perhaps the world itself -- through powerful words.
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