Communication Skills

4.1.4.The body

Decide the main ideas you want to get across and group them into logical and coherent 'chunks' of information.
* Keep focused on what's important.
* Ensure key ideas stand out.
* Keep relevant and to the point. Omit trivial details and waffle.
* Provide the necessary evidence to support your conclusions.
* Use clear examples to illustrate your points.
* Use 'connective devices' to move from point to point, to help your audience follow your thread of ideas , e.g.
- 'The next point I want to make is ...'
- 'From this we can see that ....'
- 'As a consequence ...' 'In spite of this, the results showed that ...'
- 'An example of this was when ....'
- 'On the other hand, it is also true that ....'