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\"hysteronHysteron proteron is a figure of speech, probably inherited from the Greeks, where the object that should come second is put in first place; “to put the horse before the cart<\/a>.” Another example would be\u00a0preparing the\u00a0supportive media (p2) for a presentation before the story (p1). Whilst hysteron proteron is a useful rhetorical device in literature it is a bad\u00a0way to construct a presentation.<\/p>\n

The standard approach in developing a presentation is to\u00a0enter data directly into the presentation software in the belief that this will represent the script and often, the handout<\/a>. This is the sliduement<\/a>. The p cubed approach suggests that the p1 of a presentation must be derived and developed before and without regard to the p2. The “what” of the data is developed\u00a0to a story, the “so what” for the particular audience. The media can then be designed to support this. They must be constructed in this order, not in reverse, hysteron proteron.<\/p>\n

This approach, placing the development of the most important section first changes entirely the purpose of the p2. Such contrary development may initially confuse those presenters new to the p cubed approach. The pedagogy of learning and not teaching encourages delivery of a message and concepts and not a list of facts. Rather than a data download<\/a> it is about developing understanding. The p2 is illustrative and supportive not the foundation. It is designed to augment the story and delivery, not become the handout.\u00a0The (un)natural order, hysteron proteron, is reversed putting the power in front, the horse before the cart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hysteron proteron is a figure of speech, probably inherited from the Greeks, where the object that should come second is put in first place; “to put the horse before the cart.” Another example would be\u00a0preparing the\u00a0supportive media (p2) for a presentation before the story (p1). 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