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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780020795902
ISBN: 0020795904
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 01, 1985
Publisher: Touchstone
Studio: Touchstone

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Adler here gives the listener a short course in effective communication. Both instructive and practical, this work is invaluable to professionals as well as families seeking to improve communication among themselves.




Rating: - Must Read this book
Adler's book on speaking and listening will prepare you to have a proper conversation with others. You must read this book.

Stan Faryna

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Rating: - Useful but very long-winded
Just like the title promises, this book teaches how to communicate via speaking and listening (as compared to writing and reading). If you'd read Adler's previous hit, How to Read a Book, you already know what to expect: a bit of useful advice, a lot of belabouring the obvious, all smothered in a huge amount of wordy generalities. If Strunk & White wrote like Adler, their seemingly timeless brochure would have been a two-thousand-page monstrosity long out of print and out of minds.

Bottomline: ... Read More

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Rating: - Long on commentary
Adler is obviously a very learned man and a very successful teacher. I found his argument that listening and speaking were critical skills left ignored by most educational institutions to be very well structured, and, as confirmed by my own experiences, very accurate.

That said, I listened to the unabridged audio version of this book and found it a long treatise on oral communications in society rather than a practical book on self-improvement.

I did find parts of it valuable, but the aggregate ... Read More

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Rating: - A Fabulous Teacher
I was hoping that this would be the only book I would need as a guide to developing my knowledge and skill as a public speaker. Rather, the book is about the oral communication process in all contexts. Thus delivering prepared speeches, in particular the lecture, was just one element of it. There is considerable emphasis on the listening component--rightfully so, given that Adler argues that listening well is the component of verbal communication that is the most difficult to learn and teach, and hence the most ... Read More

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Rating: - The first 90 pages are worth their weight in gold!
This is the best book, bar none, that I have ever seen on this subject. Adler takes some of the classical Greek writers ideas about persuasive speaking and "updates" them, makes them more understandable, and provides concrete illustrations of how it is done. He helps you to better grasp the process of outlining, and provides an example of a speech he had given that employs the "methodology" of the text. Very readable, very insightful

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