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Introduction: Speaking: Use the Narrative Arc Posted: March 29, 2013 | Author: Hilary Mason | Filed under: speaking | 2 Comments » If you took a college freshman literature class, you probably remember a diagram like this: …with the x-axis reprenting time, and the y-axis (which, for some infuriating reason, is never labeled) representing intensity. Last week’s speaking hack was to limit yourself to 15 minutes (or less!) per idea . The hack this week is to use this gradient of intensity within each segment you present. If you wrote it out as a linear outline, each idea in your talk might have: an introduction to the idea a high-level overview of the idea the technical details an example that brings the technical details together (this is the most exciting part!) a conclusion that wraps up why this is exciting, how it works, and what people learned You can also use the narrative arc to structure the intensity of the talk as a whole. By ordering the ide
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