| content | "<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structuring your talk</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before going straight away to writing your talk, it’s helpful to first write an outline. An outline is a written plan for your talk. It contains two parts: structure and content. Let’s first discuss structure.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The structure of your session is how you organize your content into a cohesive talk. You will later discover that having a clear structure can make the process of writing the content of your talk easier. The structure will act as a frame that guides you towards what you want to share.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure helps you tell a cohesive narrative</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that your audience understands.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> A common structure</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are many variations for how one can structure a talk</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">1</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, however, the most common structure that many talks, stories, and movies follow is this simple (and seemingly obvious) one: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">beginning, middle, and end</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. There is a lot of freedom with this simple structure. What could you include in a beginning, a middle and an end? Continue to the next page for some suggestions.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Questions to ask about structure</strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What comes first, second, third, ... last?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you talk about at each period of time? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do ideas link together?</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> Helpful reminders </strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your structure will depend on your talk’s topic, purpose and format so use this as a starting point.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Choosing a structure is an evolving process. Experiment with a structure and allow changes to happen as you progress.</span></li>
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<p>1. If you are curious to see some other structures, visit this article titled “Story structure – the hidden framework that hangs your story together”: https://www.presentation-guru.com/on-structure-the-hidden-framework-that-hangs-your-story-together/</p>" |
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