The Craft of Scientific Presentations - M Alley (Springer 2003) Episode 9 ppt

... slightly. What the new assistant professor ended up demonstrating was not so much the motion of a pendulum, but the conser- vation of momentum because the students saw that a large mass (the medicine ... keep him safe. So, after preliminary discussion about a pendulum’s trajectory, its period, and its minimum and maximum speeds, the new professor pulled the medicine ball to o...

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... looked at the audi- ence and not the blackboard, although under the circum- stances the blackboard seemed far more appealing than some of the people.” 13 Looking at the audience is im- portant, ... particularly aware of those movements. Many movements of hands and feet by less experienced presenters do not contribute to the effective- ness of the presentation. One com...

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... as tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them, have exceptions. For instance, this often quoted strategy does The Craft of Scientific Presentations Critical ... Lab; Professor Dan Inman from Virginia Tech; Dr. Tom McGlamery from the University of Wisconsin; Professor Patrick McMurtry from the University of Utah; and Patricia N....

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... terrorists. 21 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many of the students to complain to the head of the department. How- ever, Oppenheimer was already aware of the ... Figure 2-1 c. That statement became the C-portion of the syllogism and the main evidence that contributed to the awarding of the contract. S...

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... reactions of the audience. The lack of eye contact also prevents the audi- ence from assessing the intentions of the speaker. The audience gathers much from the eyes of the speaker in terms of emphasis. ... you often want the students to discover the in- formation on their own, because by discovering the ma- terial the students are much more likely to retain...

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... sentences: 82 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS at that time had a much stronger mathematical basis and was much widely more accepted by the scientific com- munity. Given the dramatically different ... succeed. The main reason was that the initial bias of NASA against a delay was much stronger than the initial bias of Morton Thiokol’s manag- ers. 9 Sometimes,...

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... key image. 152 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS how accurate the simulations were. The use of the bal- ance scales on this conclusion slide made the compari- sons more memorable than if the ... recommend a maximum of seven items. Figure 4-1 4 provides an example. This slide has seven main parts: the headline, the image, the three call- outs, the sentence...

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... Feynman made the same claim. For his first presentation, Richard Feynman faced an intimidating au- dience: the mathematician John von Neumann, the as- tronomer Henry Norris Russell, and the physicists Wolfgang ... audience sometimes have to leave, sometimes cannot stay awake, sometimes stare ab- sentmindedly at your shoes, sometimes talk with another, and sometimes are so preoccupied...

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... http://www.deutsches- museum.de/ausstell/dauer/starkst/e_strom2.htm (Munich: Deutsches Mu- seum, November 2001). 222 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS 27 Geoffrey Cantor, Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 199 1), ... Feynman, Teacher,” “Most of the Good Stuff”: Memories of Richard Feynman, ed. by Laurie M. Brown and John S. Rigden...

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... speaker, 199 Documents versus presentations, 3–8, 55–56 Dow Chemical, 83 Dramatic delivery, 49 Emotion in arguments, 25–26 Emphasis of details, 4, 64–65, 90 91 , 144–145 Endings of presentations, ... 1 79, 186–1 89, 193 , 198 learning names of, 18 multiple, 34–37 nontechnical, 25–26 personal connection to, 16–18, 27, 198 retention of details, 15, 64, 98 , 140 size of, 44 237...

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