The following are suggestions some collected from various contents and some from my own thoughts to improve para-verbal communication:

• Tone
  • Use a low, but not too much tone of voice to transmit trust and self-confidence.
  • Use an assertive tone of voice that is a little higher than normal but not too much to seems aggressive in order to transmit confidence.
• Rhythm
  • It is defined by the pause and the speed which we speak.
  • Use high rhythm when you want to transmit excitement or want to maintain the audience attentive.
  • Use low rhythm when you want to transmit self-confidence and assertiveness or need to transmit something complicated.
  • Avoid to use always the same rhythm because you risk to bore the audience.
• Accent
  • Raise the tone of voice on some words that you want to highlight.
  • Divide the phrase to give more emphasis on some part compared to others.
• Silence
  • Stay in silence for 2-3 seconds before an important message to prepare the other person to what we will say later.

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Wikipedia defines concept as an abstract idea. Because abstract is defined as an idea, feeling or quality, not as a material object and idea is defined as an output of a thought, therefore concept can be defined as an output of a thought that may represent a material object in the mind but it is not the material object itself.

The paper The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them defines concept as a perceived regularity (or pattern) in events or objects, or records of events or objects, designated by label.

To design a communication:

• Make a brainstorming and write down all the ideas that you want to transmit.
• Structure your ideas using concept maps.

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Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge.

They include:

• concepts usually enclosed in boxes
• relationship between concepts indicated by arrows that connect two concepts
• words on the arrows that specify the relationship between the two concepts.

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• What is a concept

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• Learning
• Communication

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• The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct Them | 2006 | Joseph D. Novak, Alberto J. Cañas

To be done

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• Problem solving

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The following are suggestions some collected from various sources:

• Maintain the following structure: Subject, verb, complement.
• Avoid the use of more than one or two phrases subordinate to the main phrase.
• Prefer active phrases than passive phrases
• Avoid double negation
• If you have to read the phrase more than one time, it means that it has not designed properly.

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