Author Question: You want to prepare a speaking outline for an upcoming presentation. Which one of the following will ... (Read 378 times)

kfurse · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

You want to prepare a speaking outline for an upcoming presentation. Which one of the following will help you get off to a good start?

A) Remove all transitions and key words from your planning outline.
B) Ignore your planning outline and chart a new course based on your personal agenda.
C) Start with the planning outline; then strip out anything you don't plan to say to the audience.
D) Keyboard your script on your slides. That way, you can read the slides word-for-word.
E) Insert additional examples, details, and data into your original planning outline.

Question 2

The best way to clarify your main idea in a presentation is to

A) provide a lengthy handout for your audience to review during your presentation.
B) use jargon and complicated language to emphasize its importance.
C) develop a single sentence that links your subject and purpose to your audience's frame of reference.
D) develop a limited scope.
E) restate it in three identical sentences, one right after the other.

kaykay69 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: C
Explanation: C) Start with your planning outline and then strip away anything you don't plan to say directly to your audience.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C
Explanation: C) Determine your main ideawhat you want your audience to think or do after they've heard your presentation. Then compose a one-sentence summary that links your subject and purpose to your audience's frame of reference.