Check out Lynn Gaertner-Johnston's recent Business Writing blog post, Adding Muscle to Your Message, for tips that can also be applied to your presentations:
1. Reduce the use of sentence openers such as "There is" and "These are." Compare these sentence pairs:
Read the post here: http://www.businesswritingblog.com/business_writing/2012/08/adding-muscle-to-your-messages.html
1. Reduce the use of sentence openers such as "There is" and "These are." Compare these sentence pairs:
- There is something you need to consider.
- Consider this:
- There are people listed on the roster who did not attend.
- Not everyone on the roster attended.
Read the post here: http://www.businesswritingblog.com/business_writing/2012/08/adding-muscle-to-your-messages.html