There is something wonderfully ethereal about beautifully written prose. A alchemy of words and thoughts that transports a man into deep realms only accessible to imagination, realms where all the trueness comes forth in one gushing stream of song and dance. And rhythm There is something beautiful in creating landscapes and all its attendant flowering joyous creatures; their joys, their sorrows and the troubling troubles that so looks and feels like our own. Nothing but words can wonderfully weave the heartbeats of characters and readers together. Nothing but words can bring alive all those hustle and silence those smoothness of her hair and the warmth of her breath, there is nothing which brings alive someone in so embarrassingly truthful way. Prose is really wonderful way of expressing. A gift given to only those gentle few who have had it chosen. Its a gift not for those who wield the pen but all of us who are given an opportunity to enjoy its fruits.
In his recent book, Clear and to the Point, Kosslyn explained that the four rules of PowerPoint are: The Goldilocks Rule, The Rudolph Rule, The Rule of Four, and the Birds of a Feather Rule. Here's how they work. The Goldilocks Rule refers to presenting the "just right" amount of data. Never include more information than your audience needs in a visual image. As an example, Kosslyn showed two graphs of real estate prices over time. One included ten different numbers, one for each year. The other included two numbers: a peak price, and the current price. For the purposes of a presentation about today's prices relative to peak price, those numbers were the only ones necessary. The Rudolph Rule refers to simple ways you can make information stand out and guide your audience to important details -- the way Rudolph the reindeer's red nose stood out from the other reindeers' and led them. If you're presenting a piece of relevant data in a list, why not mak...
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