The One Sentence That Will Make You a More Effective Speaker Every Time by Brenda Barboss / Inc.Com I "Clear writing is clear thinking." My 10th-grade English teacher shared that morsel of wisdom once as I was slogging through a 20-page term paper with no idea where I was going or how to make the points I wanted to make; every word I wrote led me further down a rabbit hale of rambling sentences. Incomplete thoughts, and disjointed ideas. It felt like I was writing in circles. 2 If clear writing was clear thinking, then my thinking was as clear as mud. The problem wasn't that I couldn't put words to paper. The problem was I couldn't get those words to make sense . That's because I wasn't clear on my objective. I was trying to say too much and, as a result,I was saying nothing. 3 Many speakers feel this way when they write speeches. They have too many Ideas competing for attention and too many themes pulling them in different directions. There's no through-line to hald their arguments together and 50, their conten jumbled and confused. Which 2 details support the author's point that it is important to present one big idea to an eudience? Distilling your message into a single sentence w_(1)N make your writing flow better, and make your key points easier to arrange. square Being sleep deprived does not mean employees are more productive; it simply moons thay're more exhausted. (paragraph 10) If clear writing was clear thinking, then my thinking was as clear as mud. The problem wasn't that I couldn't put words to paper. (paragraph 2) It will help inform the chokes you make regarding what information to keep and what to set aside in your speech. (paragraph 13) Why short charge yourself like that? Why not give yoursell the chance to create something worth saying? (paragraph 6)