PODCAST SCRIPT - EDITING YOUR PRESENTATION

The time spent reading and rehearsing your presentation is vital. But it’s not just a matter of building familiarity with your material. It’s also a matter of building in some serious editing time.

You need to edit your material. There are 3 main reasons.

Editing ensures that you keep on track for the points you want to make. Make each point. Illustrate the point. Provide examples and move on.

Your presentation has to be coherent with the right structure and flow. A beginning. A middle and an end. Editing ensures that you hit the right time plan. Not too short and not too long for your audience.

And editing ensures that you have the right words. The right sentences. You want to keep your words short. And your sentences short. Longer words and sentences will either trip you up or confuse your audience. And when your audience is confused they are not listening any more.

Look out for proper names and other words that require some pronunciation practice. Mark these words. Or bold them in the text. Then you are ready for them. You can’t ignore the importance of editing your presentation.

Editing keeps you on the right track. Making sure your presentation is coherent. Editing keeps you to the right timescale. Not too short. Not too long. And editing ensures that words and sentences are easy to say and easy to understand.

You are now ready to think about how you organise all this work.