Companion vol. to: How to read a book.

The untaught skills -- The solitary and the social -- "That's just rhetoric!" -- The "sales talk" and other forms of persuasive speech -- Lectures and other forms of instructive speech -- Preparing and delivering a speech -- With the mind's ear -- Writing while and after listening -- Question and answer sessions: forums -- The variety of conversations -- How to make conversation profitable and pleasurable -- The meeting of minds -- Seminars: teaching and learning by discussion -- Conversation in human life.