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Used by orators since the time of Aristotle, rhetorical devices persuade, inspire, educate, entertain and delight audiences. At this point in my budding career, I was inexperienced at best and had little time or discipline to memorize my lines. Fortunately, Richard had written this show and knew all the lines for both of us. MORE >>

There were the usual offenders: Lines of text in 8-point font, lots of dense graphs, mixed up font styles and sizes, no color scheme to speak of, and no images, photos or video. One photo will say more than 30 lines of 8-point text. She sat there frantic and breathing hard and I could see her anxiety mounting. It’s not in my nature. MORE >>

also know that I don't feel in the least bit motivated to do a line-by-line analysis of Putin's speech along the lines of the one I did of Obama's back in 2008 ( HERE ). But that, predictably, is the exact opposite of the impression I got from these two specimens. MORE >>

Avoid reading the conclusion verbatim – some presenters read their concluding slide line by line. Each person will have his or her own method for ending a presentation but here are some suggestions which may help. Leave plenty of time to wrap up. Keep your Conclusion or Summary points to ONE slide. Condense it. MORE >>