The Book Reflects All The Essentials Of English Language And The Facets Of Communication Skills. It Starts With The Concept That It Is Speech As The First Skill In Man'S Life And Also Shows The Signs Of Basic Verbal Communication. The Book Casts Light On The Important Of Grammar In Communication Skills. It Also Covers The Common Mistakes Commonly Made By Students And Throws Light On The Ways To Correct Their Common Mistakes To Enable Them To Speak Correctly. The Book Also Shows The Significance In The Art Of Pronunciation. One Is Enabled To Learn The Phonetic Symbols, Stress And Intonation. The Book Guides Its Readers To Learn The Signs Of Positive Body Language I.E Nonverbal Communication: Postures, Gestures, Appearance, Facial Expressions, Eye-Contact, Etc; Apart From Verbal Communication.About the AuthorDr. Katta Rajamouly, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., is a professor of English by vocational and a poet, short story writer, essayist, critic and translator by avocation. He is Professor and Head, Department of English (S & H Dept.) at Ganapathy Engineering College, Warangal (A.P.). He has had rich experience in the field of teaching: English Language and English Literature for more than three decades. He has been handling the subjects: The Age of Milton, Modern British Poetry, Indian English Literature, the History of English Language, The Structure of Modern English, The Use of English, Linguistics, English Language Teaching in India, and American Literature both in Kakatilya University (Warangal) and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University (Regional Study Circle, Warangal). As a student, he was good at studies. He won encomiums of his teachers as he proved his academic excellence of his teachers as he proved his academic excellence and stood first in every class and so won the merit scholarship every year of his school and college studies. He obtained M.A from Osmania University, Hyderabad, M.Phil and Ph.D from Kakatiya University, Warangal. He, as a student had perseverance, strived hard to pursue his studies since he belonged to a poverty-stricken middle class family. As a researcher, he worked on Movement Poetry for his M.Phil and on time in the poetry of Philip Larkin for his Ph.D in Kakatiya University, Warangal. He is currently working on Grammar for his post-doctoral research, dealing with inconsistencies and inadequacies in traditional grammars. As a writer, he published the book entitled The Poetry of the Philip Larkin: a Critical Study (Prestige Publishers, Delhi, 2007) and a book of grammar: GRAMMAR (School of Distance and Continuing Education, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 2008). His other works on ELT: English Language Laboratory, Learn English through Conversation, The Dictionary of Grammatical Terms; English at Our Doorstep, Copious Expressions to Learn English, Correct and Appropriate Usage and The Art of Speaking: the Gift of Gift and the Skill of Skills (For Engineering Students) are under consideration for publication. As a research supervisor, he has been guiding the research scholars of different universities. Nine scholars have pursued research for their M.Phil under his supervision. They worked on poetry, short fiction, ELT, etc.Table of ContentsPreface Art of Speaking, the Skill of Skills and the Gift of Gifts: A Comprehensive Study Kinds of Activities to Promote Speaking Skill Extra Activities to be Practiced Strategies for Development in Presentation Skills Levels of Communication Skills References