In Reply to: RE: Whatever happened to the quality of reproduced sound in the home? posted by E-Stat on July 18, 2014 at 12:09:00:
As someone who does a bit of public speaking, the underlining is likely a way for not losing your place in the text. It does mean, however that the speaker may be reading the presentation word for word.But if you were in the audience you wouldn't know that. The audience would see the presentation slides, only the speaker would see the detailed notes. Both are shown so that the full text would be available.
The other option, and the one recommended is to write the speech first and to ensure that it can stand on its own merits. That speech is then the basis for the notes with the presentation.
Edit: It does seem like a long and boring presentation with a lot of unecessary detail and too much repetition. Inexperienced speakers will tend to do that, throwing in everything and the kitchen sink.
You have to know who your audience will be and tailor the presentation to that knowledge base. With a meeting of professionals and peers, a lot of that information would have already been known.
Too much detail distracts from the true message, it gets lost in the static. The whole point was that improvements have been made in the last 50 years and that there's room for more. I think it would have been more effective to discuss what those improvements could be and to leave out the history lesson.
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- RE: Whatever happened to the quality of reproduced sound in the home? - StephenJK 04:57:33 07/19/14 (1)
- RE: Whatever happened to the quality of reproduced sound in the home? - E-Stat 06:25:13 07/19/14 (0)