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Tips for public speaking

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There are few skills that will bring more opportunity into your life than the ability to speak well in public. Below are 12 tips that can make the difference between those speakers who leave a powerful, positive impression and those that are quickly forgotten.

1. Speak with an intent to move people to action. Know what you want your audience to do immediately after hearing your speech. If nobody does anything different than they would have done before you spoke - the value of your speech is zero.

2. Start strong with a "grabber". A personal story, a quote from an expert or a shocking statistic - something that takes a hold of your audience and gets them hooked and opens their mind to your message. Give the audience a chance to see your personal connection to the topic.

3. Structure your material in three sections- grabber, middle, close. Know your material. Get really interested in the topic. Find good stories.

4. Practice. Practice.Rehearse out loud with all equipment you plan on using. Work to control filler words; Practice, pause and breathe. Use a clock to check your timings and allow time for the unexpected.

5. Know the audience.Try to speak to one or two people in the audience as they arrive - they will be your allies in the audience - it is easier to speak to friends than to strangers.

6. Know the setup.Arrive in good time to check out the speaking area and get practice using the microphone and any visual aids.

7. Relax. Begin with a well prepared grabber. A relevant personal story is a great start. It establishes your credibility. It connects you to the audience and creates the right emotional atmosphere (and calms your nerves).

8. Visualize yourself successful.See yourself at the end of the speech surrounded by people asking questions, visualize the applause.

9. Pauses. Include 3-8 second pauses at key moments - just before key statements or just after a story - this really brings the audience into the speech.

10. Don't apologize- the audience probably never noticed it.

11. Smile. Look like the content matters to you - if the audience don't feel that it is important to you, it will be really hard for them to feel that it should be important for them.

12. Get experience.Take every opportunity you can get to speak (and listen to other speakers). Prepare well ahead of time. Experience builds confidence, which is the key to effective speaking.

A final note on practice: There are many resources available for those who decide that they wish to become influential. However, nothing can help the person who does not practice. No tool is as powerful in allowing you to practice than the webcam. Make it a habit to switch on the webcam for 3 minutes each day and practice expressing yourself. Explain why your project is important. Explain why someone should work on your team. Explain your tips for success in your business. Practice your answer to "tell me about yourself?"

A great musician practices a symphony hundreds of times before playing it in front of an audience. A great speaker practices the words before they find themselves on the spot.

Malcolm Gladwell made famous the idea that we need 10,000 hours of practice in order to become a world-class performer. Start now with your first webcam video. It may take many years before you accumulate 10,000 hours of practice, but there are big steps forward in your influence at 1, 10 and 100 hours of practice.
Conor Neill is a senior lecturer at IESE Business School and an expert in communications.

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There are few skills that will bring more opportunity into your life than the ability to speak well in public. Below are 12 tips that can make the difference between those speakers who leave a powerful, positive impression and those that are quickly forgotten. Speak with an intent to move people [...]

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One of your primary goals as a writer is to present ideas in a clear and understandable way. To help readers move through your complex ideas, you want to be intentional about how you structure your paper as a whole as well as how you form the individual paragraphs that comprise it. In order to think through the challenges of presenting your ideas articulately, logically, and in ways that seem natural to your readers, check out some of these resources: Developing a Thesis Statement, Paragraphing, and Developing Strategic Transitions: Writing that Establishes Relationships and Connections Between Ideas.

While clear writing is mostly achieved through the deliberate sequencing of your ideas across your entire paper, you can guide readers through the connections you're making by using transitional words in individual sentences. Transitional words and phrases can create powerful links between your ideas and can help your reader understand your paper's logic.

In what follows, we've included a list of frequently used transitional words and phrases that can help you establish how your various ideas relate to each other. We've divided these words and phrases into categories based on the common kinds of relationships writers establish between ideas.

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Use these transitions strategically by making sure that the word or phrase you're choosing matches the logic of the relationship you're emphasizing or the connection you're making. All of these words and phrases have different meanings, nuances, and connotations, so before using a particular transitional word in your paper, be sure you understand its meaning and usage completely, and be sure that it's the right match for your paper's logic.
Use these transitional words and phrases sparingly because if you use too many of them, your readers might feel like you are overexplaining connections that are already clear.

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An outline is a great way to organize your thoughts and research if you're preparing a speech, an essay, a novel, or even a study guide. This wikiHow will teach you how to write one. === Planning Your Outline ===

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Business

Cheap labor U.S. companies that move factories to undeveloped nations barely pay employees enough to live on. Is it unethical to pay cheap wages or are companies doing those workers a favor?

Fitness programs Should companies allow employees to exercise on work time?

Mining What safety measures made the recent Canadian mining accident a noncasualty event, while recent U.S. mining accidents have been fatal?

Oil companies Do oil companies make big bucks while the rest of us pay over $3 a gallon?

Wage gap Women still earn only 75 cents for every $1 a man earns. Explain why.

Wages There's a minimum wage, but should there also be a maximum wage/salary a person can earn?

Workaholics Do Americans work too hard? Does working more actually reduce productivity? Is a 40-hour workweek too much? Should there be a mandatory cap on the number of hours a person can work? Should there be changes in employment laws to give Americans more relaxation time?

Education

Athletes in high schools Should shoe companies be able to give away free shoes and equipment to high school athletes?

Censorship Should parents censor textbooks and other literature for children in schools?

College athletics Should college athletes be paid?

Electronic information preservation Does the Information Age mean we are losing important historical information?

Exams Exams often do little more than measure a person's ability to take exams. Should exams be outlawed in favor of another form of assessment?

Flag Should children be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools?

Gap year Should teens in the U.S. adopt the British custom of taking a "gap year" between high school and college?

Grades In some European schools, fewer than 10% of students get A's. Is there grade inflation in the U.S.? Why so many A's for Americans?

No Child Left Behind Act Is it working?

School lunches Should government impose restrictions on what kinds of foods can be served in school cafeterias?

School uniforms Pros and cons of school uniforms.

Single-sex schools Do children learn better in boys-only and girls-only schools?

Environment

Climate change Is global warming a hoax? Is it being exaggerated?

Coal Should the use of coal be subjected to stricter environmental regulations than other fuels?

DDT Should DDT be reapproved for use in the wake of recent bedbug outbreaks across the country?

Wind energy Is wind energy really that cheap? Is it effective? Is it practical?

Government Policy

Airport security Should the government use invasive pat-downs and body scans to ensure passenger safety or are there better methods?

al-Qaida Has U.S. policy actually spread terrorism rather than contain it? Will it get better or worse? Why and how?

Arming pilots Good idea?

Bridges, roads, waterways Why the government gets a bad report card on America's infrastructure.

Health care crisis Most developed nations have universal health coverage. Why doesn't the U.S., the wealthiest nation, have it?

Homeland Security Are we safer since the creation of this department?

Immigration Should illegal immigrants be made legal citizens?

Internet regulation Should the federal government be allowed to regulate information on the Internet?

Iraq War Is America winning or losing the war? What is the measurement of success? Have the benefits outweighed the costs?

Iraq War vets Are they being cheated on medical benefits?

Lead poisoning Should the U.S. stop importing Chinese-manufactured toys?

Marijuana legalization Should the federal government legalize the use of marijuana?

Military Should the U.S. have mandatory military conscription? For whom?

Moms Should stay-at-home moms get a salary from the government?

Obesity and weight loss Should thin people have to pay Medicare and other health costs for the health problems of obese people? Should obese people have higher premiums?

Prescription medicines Should there be a national database to track controlled substances (i.e., oxycodone) or should it be a state issue?

Privacy Should the government be allowed to wiretap without permission?

School lunches Should government impose restrictions on what kinds of foods can be served in school cafeterias?

Sex offenders Once they leave prison, are laws about where they may live and be employed unfair?

Smoking bans Should the federal government pass a nationwide indoor smoking ban?

Health

Fast food Are we taking it too far by blaming fast-food restaurants for obesity? When is it individual responsibility and when is it appropriate to place blame?

Fitness programs Should companies allow employees to exercise on work time?

Food Steroids. Antibiotics. Sprays. Are food manufacturers killing us?

Health care crisis Most developed nations have universal health coverage. Why doesn't the U.S., the wealthiest nation, have it?

Lead poisoning Should the U.S. stop importing Chinese-manufactured toys?

Malpractice How can we balance the need to lower the cost of malpractice insurance with the fact that physician malpractice is one of the leading causes of death?

Models Should there be a minimum weight limit?

Noise pollution How much is too much noise? What, if anything, should we do to curb it?

Obesity and weight loss Should thin people have to pay Medicare and other health costs for the health problems of obese people? Should obese people have higher premiums?

Prescription medicines Should there be a national database to track controlled substances (i.e., oxycodone) or should it be a state issue?

School lunches Should government impose restrictions on what kinds of foods can be served in school cafeterias?

Smoking bans Should the federal government pass a nationwide indoor smoking ban?

Social media Can excessive use of social media contribute to addictive behaviors (drugs, tobacco, alcohol) or mental health issues?

Steroids Should they be legalized?

Vaccines Should parents avoid vaccinating their children?

Human Behavior

Nonverbal communication How do men and women communicate differently using body language, and why does it matter (in dating, the workplace, social circles)?

Road rage Why do normally patient people become impatient behind the wheel?

Social anxiety How is it different from shyness? And, are we a society of anxiety?

Suicide bombers What kind of person becomes a suicide bomber?

Terrorism Can terrorism ever be justified?

Legal Issues

Airplane accidents Who is responsible? Should families of victims be entitled to compensation?

Bullying laws Should the state or federal government put laws into place to prevent bullying?

Civil disobedience Is breaking the law for a cause justifiable?

Civil unions If civil couples have the same rights/privileges as married people, why get married?

Holocaust Should denial of the Holocaust be illegal?

Infidelity In some states, it is illegal to cheat on a spouse. Should we prosecute cheaters? Is a law that's not enforced really a law?

Juvenile offenders Should juvenile offenders be tried and punished as adults?

Organ sale Should we legalize the sale of human organs?

Parents Should parents be held responsible when their children break laws?

Sex offenders Once they leave prison, are laws about where they may live and be employed unfair?

Statutory rape Recently, a 17-year-old boy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. Are statutory rape laws patronizing to girls and discriminatory to boys?
Media and Freedom of Speech
Advertising Should certain kinds of ads be banned in the interest of health/morality/annoyance - alcohol, cigarettes, prescription meds, etc.?

Art A few years ago, an artist was criticized for depicting the Virgin Mary with elephant dung. When is art not really art?

Censorship Should parents censor textbooks and other literature for children in schools?

Church arson Hate crime?

Flag Should children be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools?

Journalism Should newspaper reporters be required to reveal their sources?

Media Does the media, both print and broadcast, report fairly? Does it ever cross the line between reporting the news and creating the news?

Paparazzi What, if any, limitations should be applied to the paparazzi?

Pornography Parental filters on the Internet. Does censorship actually increase curiosity and use of pornography?

Public figures Does the public have a right to know about a public figure's private life?

Racial bias in media Does news coverage favor whites?
Religion
Church arson Hate crime?

Religion Is there one true religion?

Women in the clergy Should women be priests, pastors, ministers and rabbis?

Social Issues

Abstinence programs Do they work?

Alcohol Should the U.S. lower the drinking age to 18?

Animal rights Should it be illegal to use animals for sports and entertainment?

Beauty contests Do they serve any purpose in society?

Campus sexual assault Are sexual assault incidences on college campuses on the rise or has awareness just increased?

Child soldiers Why and how children are used for war

Civil unions If civil couples have the same rights/privileges as married people, why get married?

Cyber crime What are the latest ways to steal identity and money?

Divorce Should we reform laws to make it harder to get a divorce?

Felons and voting Should convicted felons have the right to vote?

Feminism Is feminism still relevant? How do young women view feminism?

Gay marriage Should there be a constitutional amendment that allows gays and lesbians to legally marry?

Generations How four different generations in the workplace can work together.

Infidelity In some states, it is illegal to cheat on a spouse. Should we prosecute cheaters? Is a law that's not enforced really a law?

Internet and children Are children smarter (or more socialized) because of the Internet?

Intersexuals What, if anything, should be done medically and socially?

Literacy Are Americans "literate"?

Models Should there be a minimum weight limit?

Muslim Americans What is life for them like in the U.S. after September 11, 2001?

Organ sale Should we legalize the sale of human organs?

Privacy What medical information should be confidential? Who, if anybody, should have access to medical records?

Sex offenders Once they leave prison, are laws about where they may live and be employed unfair?

Spanking Should it be outlawed?

Sports parents What are the effects on children whose parents push them in sports?

Statutory rape Recently, a 17-year-old boy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. Are statutory rape laws patronizing to girls and discriminatory to boys?

Title IX Has it helped women's sports? Has it harmed men's sports?

Tough love Does parental "tough love" really work?

Toys Do certain children's toys create social or emotional problems?

Wages There's a minimum wage, but should there also be a maximum wage/salary a person can earn?

Wage gap Women still earn only 75 cents for every $1 a man earns. Explain why.

Workaholics Do Americans work too hard? Does working more actually reduce productivity? Is a 40-hour work week too much? Should there be a mandatory cap on the number of hours a person can work? Should there be changes in employment laws to give Americans more relaxation time?

Working mothers What differences, if any, are there in children who are raised by stay-at-home moms and working moms? Does society today still discriminate against working mothers who wish to have flexible work schedules?

World

Middle East Why so many conflicts? Are there solutions?

Overpopulation What would happen globally if the demand for natural resources becomes greater than the supply?

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Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide

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MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

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6. Entries are ordered alphabetically by authors' last name or source title (if no author is listed)

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