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Name: Seven Ways to Motivate the Audience
ID: m16190
Language: English (en)
Summary: This handout provides examples of seven strategies commonly used to engage an audience's attention at the beginning of an oral presentation.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, Humanities
Keywords: Communication, Presentation
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Maintainers: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Mar 21, 2008 4:25 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: May 4, 2008 5:58 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m16190_1.1.cnxml

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Version: 1.1 May 4, 2008 5:58 pm GMT-5 by The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication
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