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How to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
5 recommenders · 5 threads · recommended in 5 years, 2019–2024 · score 5.4
A recorded MIT OpenCourseWare lecture by the late professor Patrick Winston on giving clear, effective oral presentations and public speaking, built around a simple framework of tools for structuring talks.
Commenters call it a must-watch lecture on presentation and public speaking, and say it explains its own tools clearly by following them.
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MIT lecture by Patric Winston: How to speak is the lecture you need to watch about public speaking and presentation. The most awesome thing about the lecture that it is self describing it's tools and framework in an awesome way and built up exactly as it's content describe is should. It's on youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
His excellent "How to Speak" lectures can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F536001A3C605FC
One of the things missing from Mr. Graham's musings is the context, e.g. academic, business. And a at least some clarification of what fancy words and sentence structure are.
Mr. Graham doesn't use the term, but purple prose odious to read and I would agree that complicated writing is often used (e.g. in academia) to obfuscate the key message and bolster weak arguments. On the other end of the spectrum too much simplicity is exhausting to read; short, unvaried sentences are boring. For informative writing, I agree that ideas should be clearly and concisely expressed for the intended audience. For this purpose I'd highly recommend "Make it Clear" by Patrick Winston, who was known for his work in AI, but also a lecture series at MIT called "How to Speak".
Which words are deemed "fancy" in the English language requires knowledge of fluent English and jargon of the intended reader. For a native German speaker the word "ersatz" is commonplace, but it probably isn't familiar to many Americans. Likewise, Germans prefer "fancy" passive constructions--sentences that feel inelegant to English speakers, sound fine to Germans.
The MIT OpenCourseWare talk How to Speak by Patrick Winston is a great lecture on this subject: https://youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY
An interesting lecture on the topic is also How To Speak by late MIT professor Patrick Winston [1]. Very much recommended!
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY