Chop Chop those long sentences. At least once in a while. Not all long sentences are bad of course, but in order to provide variety and make your presentation more conversational when writing it go back over your copy as use what Mike Masterson in the online journal, Early to Rise calls, "the breath test".
This breath test means simply reading over your copy out loud to see which ones you can read without taking a second breath. Some of the ones you can't should be cut or broken up.
You can do this by rewriting the longer sentence to create two shorter ones or use dashes or ellipses to break the sentence into two parts.
Gabriele Rico in her book Writing the Natural Way can help you develop the skill to write in with a natural, rich variety. This will help to bring more life to y our writing and oral presentations.
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