“Make them want to turn the page,” says Paula Moya, a humanities professor at Stanford University and author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Moya sits down with strategic communication lecturer Matt Abrahams to share how the elements of story can be used in other types of communication. Create compelling situations, full of suspense and surprise, she says. Create characters we can empathize with; speak your written sentences aloud, and, Moya advises, think of the images your words may conjure, and how they may be interpreted by different audiences. #thinkfasttalksmart #podcast