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Jimmy Cox's Articles in Writing & Speaking

  • How to Research a Term Paper
    In some courses, especially in your senior year, you may be asked to submit long pieces of writing that may be loosely classified as term papers or research reports. Typical among these are studies of an author's characteristics or surveys of literary movements in honor English classes or analyses in depth of various topics in your science or social studies courses.
  • How To Successfully Deliver A Speech
    In considering how best to deliver a speech, it is desirable that a speaker should have some knowledge of the people he is to address. It will be to his advantage to know something of their range of thought and their likes and dislikes. He should also know something of the occasion.
  • Language: Tricks Of The Trade
    To write well you must learn to use language tricks that can add to your writing the color, style, and appeal you want it to have. The five suggestions that follow have been called tricks because they work like magic to lift your composition out of the dull and the routine.
  • Developing Your Ability To Communicate
    The art of conversation can greatly enhance a person's ability to deliver a high quality speech whenever he is called upon to do so. Increase your ease of communication with this helpful information.
  • 5 Questions To Generate Great Ideas
    With these simple questions provided in this article as your basis, you will be able to generate any number of great ideas. No writing will ever be a problem again!
  • Improving Your Child's Writing
    The home and the school working together can make immeasurable strides in both how to write and what to write. The parent and the child can together generate a natural and lasting desire for correctness and neatness.
  • How to Write A Better Composition
    Below are some tips on how you can write better student compositions. Choosing the right topic will get you off on the right foot.
  • Breathing: The Key To Speaking
    Correct management of the breath is of first importance to the student of elocution, and for all those wishing to speak publicly. These breathing and relaxation exercises will undoubtedly give you the edge for improving your public speaking!
  • The Key To Confidence
    To be able to speak in public is a trait envied my some, mastered by few, but wanted by all. Use these keys in this article to help you learn how to speak in public and gain the confidence to use your voice.
  • Handwriting As A Personal Tool
    Thirty years ago the very idea that analyzing handwriting was anything else but an adjunct to fortune telling was not even thought of. Books on psychology scoffed at the idea of a handwriting specimen revealing anything about a writer, other than whether he or she could write legibly.
  • How to Gain the Confidence of an Audience
    The first thing for the public speaker to do is to gain the confidence and sympathy of his audience. Under no circumstances is he to antagonize or prejudice his audience against him in the beginning.
  • How to Tell a Story Well
    The tempo of storytelling should usually be faster than the normal speed of conversational delivery. Listeners like to feel the story is progressing. Action must take place. You can emphasize this feeling of progress by telling the story briskly.
  • Experience in Speaking Well
    My first contact with the talk of the world outside my home was with the boys in a rural school. It was not pleasant. All the boys were too bashful to talk with the girls. And even among the boys, the younger and possibly also the nicer boys were usually too bashful to participate in the general talk sessions.
  • Contributing Good Information To Conversation
    If we are well-informed, then the goal in conversation is to select subjects in which all those taking part have an interest. When two people meet, the overlapping of their experiences produces subjects for conversation. Mutual experiences develop interest.

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