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Welcome back.
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We're now in
the second half of the course.
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So, I hope you're starting to notice
that your day-to-day communication
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is more deliberate
and hopefully more effective.
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Make sure you practice
the lessons from this course
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in your regular working life.
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And let us know how things go.
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It will be great to hear
your stories of success
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or otherwise,
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whatever happened.
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We can all learn from our own
and each other's experiences.
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Module three introduced you
to the middle of the narrative.
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In this module,
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we'll complete our narrative skeleton
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by focusing on
what comes before and after.
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Your openings and closings.
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framing the narrative you want to present
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and the one you want
to provoke among your audience.
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We'll start with persuasive openings,
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talking about how they should be:
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Active,
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intriguing,
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compelling,
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and engaging.
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We'll talk about techniques
such as the dropped introduction.
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Then we'll move on to persuasive closings,
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talking about
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how they should contain a call to action,
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and learning about techniques
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such as the outro.
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So, let's get on with it.