If you do any presenting at all, at some point you'll probably have to work from prepared material.

With my acting scripts, I would try to find the meaning by stressing all the different words and trying a variety of inflections until it "sounded" right. Since I have a fairly good "ear" I was generally on track, but frequently frustrated. Learn from my experience.

Reading Prepared Material (658 words)
Knowing the logical places to pause and the most meaningful words to stress can help even the most difficult material sound as if you were just speaking.

Using Inflections (646 words)
Do you know what a "circumflex" is? It's one of the most important conversational tools in our language, but it tends to disappear when something is read out loud. Find out about it and the other inflections here.

Sounding Conversational (595 words)
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