In Organizing a Presentation on Gender Communication, a Classmate Has

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Essay

In organizing a presentation on gender communication, a classmate has researched the following topics: (a) the stages of male-female relationship development; (b) the different friendship experiences of females and males; (c) strains in dual-career marriages; and (d) conflicts in intimate heterosexual relationships. What kind of advice would you give this student in terms of how to develop a central idea and how to decide which of the presentation's key points to include? Are there one or two organization patterns that would work better than others? Should the student include all of the information that was researched? Why or why not?

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