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Oral Communication · Chapter 7

Make the Number Land

Numbers on a page and numbers in the ear are different animals: a reader can go back, a listener cannot. Take one real finding and rebuild it for the ear. Every switch changes the sentence you would actually say — and moves three meters that measure what the room receives.
The finding you are working with
Shape the number
Frame it
Stack another form of support
What the room actually hears
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