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'''Narrating a story in PAR format-English'''

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||Welcome to this Spoken Tutorial on How to narrate a story in PAR format. 
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||You remember, in the previous tutorial, we looked at PAR briefly. 
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||It stands for Problem, Action, and Result.
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||Imagine someone is asking you a question. 
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||It could be your friends or parents or your interviewers in a job interview. 
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||Can we use the PAR format of storytelling to answer the question? 
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||Let's figure it out in this tutorial. 
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||There are four steps to writing a story in the PAR format. 
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||Let's understand them one by one 
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||The first step in storytelling is to know who you are telling the story to. 
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||We call them the target audience.
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||Your target audience could be your friends 
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||Or your parents 
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||Or your interviewers. 
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||In general, it's anyone who has asked you the question. 
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||The 2nd step is to understand what information they are looking for from you. 
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||Do your friends want to hear about an event that got you into trouble as a kid? 
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||Or Do your parents want to hear about an event you organized in college? 
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||Or
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||Do your interviewers want to hear about your skills that would benefit the company? 
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||Paying attention to the question will help you understand what they are looking for. 
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||If the question is not entirely clear to you, ask for clarifications.
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||Think of a question someone asked you? 
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||Do you remember who that person is and the information they were looking for?
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||Great. 
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||You now know what a target audience is. 
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||Keep in mind target audience can be a person or a group of people.
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||Let’s look at the third step 
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||The third step is to think about what you want to say. 
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||Stories are a great way to connect 
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||Remember, this is about saying in a way that connects with the target audience.
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||But have you ever wondered what these stories are? 
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||They are nothing but experiences. 
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||They can be your own experiences or the experiences of others.
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||Now lets see the fourth step and the final step. 
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||How to structure and present your experience in the PAR format. 
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||For that, I’m going to tell you about a final year college student, Smitha. She is attending her job interview. 
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||In the interview the interviewers tell her that the role requires multitasking. 
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||They want her to share her experience of handling multiple tasks at the same time. 
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||They wanted to know what challenges she faced. 
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||How she handled them 
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||And if she managed to complete the tasks.
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||Smitha thought for a while and then structured her thoughts like this. 
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||Who is the target audience: My interviewers 
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||My interviewers 
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||What information are they looking for from me: 
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||They want to know if I have the ability to multitask. 
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||They want to know how I handled challenges I faced.
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||They also want to know if I managed to complete my tasks.
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||What story should I tell?: 
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||Maybe about how I handled my project submission and played the lead role in final year at the same time?
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||She then structured the story in the PAR format of storytelling. 
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||What was the problem: 
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||Both my project work and drama practice needed my time. 
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||For the project work, I had to know my subject very well. 
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||To play the lead character in the drama, I had to memorize my dialogues.
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||I had to work on my voice modulation and body language 
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||What if my project team meetings clash with my drama rehearsals?
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||What action did I take: 
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||I created a detailed to-do-task list, outlining specific activities for each day. 
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||I allocated time slots for various activities. 
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||I informed both my project mates and drama team about my commitments. 
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||I made it clear to my project mates that my drama practice would get over by 8pm.
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||I was available for project-related tasks after that. 
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||This ensured that my project meetings did not clash with my rehearsals.
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||What results did I produce? 
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||My teammates and I submitted the project on time. 
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||During the culturals, my performance in the drama was highly appreciated by the audience 
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||I hope this experience showcases my ability to excel in multitasking. 
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||Do you think Smitha’s story convinced her interviewers about her multitasking ability? 
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||What smita told her interviewers is available as a script. 
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||You can access it by opening the file smita-script.txt available in the code file link.
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||Ok, let’s summarize what we learnt in this tutorial? 
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||To answer a question in PAR format of story telling, the steps we need to follow are: 
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||The first step: 
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||You need to know who you are telling your story to. 
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||The second step: 
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||You need to understand what information they are looking for. 
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||The third step: 
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||You need to think about the experience you want to share.
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||The fourth step: 
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||Your experience must communicate the information they are looking for. 
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||As an assignment, 
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||I want you to tell your friends your experience of performing two tasks. 
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||Like Smitha, you must have worked on both the tasks at the same time.
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||Use PAR format of storytelling to tell your story. 
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||After you narrate your story, ask them what they thought about your presentation. 
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||The more often you practice, you will get better at storytelling. 
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||The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. 
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||Please download and watch it. 
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||We conduct workshops and give certificates. 
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||For more details, please write to us.
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||If you have questions in THIS Spoken Tutorial, Please visit our website. 
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||Choose the minute and second where you have the question. 
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||Explain your question briefly 
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||The Spoken Tutorial project will ensure an answer. 
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||You will have to register to ask questions
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||The Spoken Tutorial forum is for specific questions on this tutorial. 
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||Please do not post unrelated and general questions on them. 
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||This will help reduce the clutter. 
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||With less clutter, we can use these discussions as instructional material.
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||The Spoken Tutorial project was established by the Ministry of Education(MoE), Govt of India.
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||With this we have come to the end of this tutorial. Its me Sudha signing off.
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||Hope you enjoyed learning.
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