COMM 1112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Inflection

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1112
• Professor: Sara Picklesimer

Document Summary

This chapter was about fluency through preparation. While reading this chapter, i felt like my head was going to explode. Carnegie describes how essential knowledge is, and then goes on to explain how this includes a multitude of things. Think and arrange your thoughts, have a precise vocabulary, have an easy manner of breathing, don"t be self conscious. Carnegie, if i am thinking about all of these things, i"m going to be the least fluent i have ever been. Just as i was thinking this, he comforted me by saying don"t feel discouraged if all of these principles seem to retard your fluency . He outlines that practice helps turn these principles into habit, and you therefore don"t need to think about them. The flowing quality of speech is much more than the ready, easy use of words. Fluency is almost entirely a matter of preparation.