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Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|Public speaking|}}After a disastrous half-hour melt-down in front of a very patient and forgiving crowd, some lessons learned about public speaking: ====Say more not less==== If you are anything like the JC ({{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles and counting, right?) you will have too much you want say, and too many smart-arse jokes, knowing cultural references and complicated arguments. Unless you are embarking on some kind of Soviet-style five-hour oration with an au...") |
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Speaking to slides well, involves a lot of preparation, and also triangulation between your notes, the slides and what you end up saying. It also commits you to a [[Push and pull information|“push” communication]] — and having prepared it in ignorance of who the audience will turn out to be, you are presenting a carefully structured argument to the void, whether the audience is receptive to it, or even interested in it, or not. | Speaking to slides well, involves a lot of preparation, and also triangulation between your notes, the slides and what you end up saying. It also commits you to a [[Push and pull information|“push” communication]] — and having prepared it in ignorance of who the audience will turn out to be, you are presenting a carefully structured argument to the void, whether the audience is receptive to it, or even interested in it, or not. | ||
There is nothing wrong with doing this, but it is hard, and — unless you propose to read out your slides — requires a good deal of rehearsal and execution chops. | There is nothing wrong with doing this, but it is hard, and — unless you propose to read out your slides — requires a good deal of rehearsal and execution chops. | ||
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