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How to get our Conflict Resolution or Shyness Study for FREE!

Here's our last Back to Homeschool Special Offer! Buy Speech and Debate value package and get your choice of our Say What You Mean: Avoiding, Reducing and Resolving Conflicts study or our Say What You Mean: Overcoming Social Anxiety FREE! Not only will you receive these two easy to use and fun studies, but you and your students will be able to decrease the jitters associated with making a speech by learning more about overcoming the anxiety people often feel in social situations and transferring those skills to speech making.  OR decreasing, resolving and avoiding the conflicts when you or your student is debating on a more personal level.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Click the pictures to read more about these choices: x...

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Weird Scrabble Contest

I'll just bet you weren't aware, but this is National Scrabble Week and it's also Weird Contest Week.  In honor of both, we're having a Weird Scrabble Contest.  In true Scrabble style, we are asking you to find words among the following random letters you might have if you were allowed this many letters when playing Scrabble. RULES: 1. From among the letters listed here, find all the possible you might put down on a Scrabble board if it were your turn.  All the words have to have something to do with communication.  For each word, you cannot reuse letters unless there are more than one of that letter listed (just like it is in real Scrabble).  Each word is...

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Word Wednesday Contest

June is Effective Communication Month so, to celebrate, Art of Eloquence is hosting a contest here on the blog where you could win free Art of Eloquence studies of YOUR CHOICE!  Here's how it works: CONTEST RULES/HOW TO ENTER: 1. Submit a family-friendly, funny or sweet story of miscommunication.  The story could have happened to you in "real life," you could have heard about it happening to someone else  OR you could write one out of your own imagination. It can be funny like a Foot in Mouth Man episode or a sweet and inspirational story.  Preferably just a few sentences or a paragraph, but there is no limit to the length if it's a good story. 2. Post them...

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NEW at Art of Eloquence: UPDATED Sample Lessons

We've updated all our sample lessons! Over the last year, I have been working almost exclusively on new communication studies, especially the ones that you have told us you needed.  Over the year, we have released: Say What You Mean Debating the Issues   Say What You Mean Overcoming Social Anxiety   Say What You Mean Beginning Debate   Say What You Mean Avoiding, Reducing and Resolving Conflicts   This past year has left me precious little time to do some much needed revising of our website...and you all know how UNtechie I am.  Well, in the past few weeks, I've been working on several aspects of our website and today I'm ready to announce our first series of changes:...

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JoJoisms & Free Gift

Have you subscribed to Communication FUNdamentals’ RSS Feed?  Don’t miss a post! x It's Communication FUNdamentals Week and I hope you've been enjoying many giggles over the last few days.  Laughter is essential and not only to the learning process as we were discussion earlier, but to our health.  They say laughter is the best medicine.  You should have several doses per day! I love making people laugh.  I do it with my kids. In fact, my son has gotten so used to it that he often says, "Mommy, say something funny!"  No pressure or anything! ROFL Well, in case you haven't been reading my blog, my articles, my Facebook fan page, my newsletter or my studies, (shudder, the thought!)...

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