... learn the latest news. For instance, at Pratt& Whitney, the principal means of communicating new1 14 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many of the students ... shouldbring them back into the presentation with the beginning of the next topic. At the presentation’s end, you should 36 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS come back to the shallows and then examine ... 2-1c. Thatstatement became the C-portion ofthe syllogism and the main evidence that contributed to the awarding of the contract.Statistics are another form of logical evidence, andtheir power...
... the beginning of a presentation in which 14 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many of the students to complain to the head ofthe department. How-ever, ... occasion, the adage Tell them what you’regoing to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told themserves. The introduction places the audience in a posi-tion to comprehend the instructions, the ... personal 32 THECRAFTOFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS municate? Part ofthe problem was language; he oftenintermixed German and English, neither of which washis native tongue, Danish.7 Another part...
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... common reasonfor the failure of many scientific presentations. Anothercommon reason is a failure to understand the purpose of the presentation. Few presentations have the sole pur-pose of ... occasion, the adage Tell them what you’regoing to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told themserves. The introduction places the audience in a posi-tion to comprehend the instructions, the ... 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. Smith of Sandia National...
... They changeyour words and ideas, develop them, reorder them, dismem-ber them, turn them inside out, or obliterate them alto-gether. They signify, at some level, that your literary expres-sion ... Forexample:A Matter of Attitude19 Many thanks to John Marcham, former editor ofthe Cornell Alumni News, who trained me; to E. B. White and Will Strunk Jr., who were my mentors through theirclassic ... available from the British Library. would go no further—“30 percent; we cannot say morethan 30 percent”—till they were sure I had the message.Then they would shut theof ce door. “But let me tell...
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... Some ofthe best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci-ence, be eager to wade into its complexities, ask intelligentquestions, and shake off ... They changeyour words and ideas, develop them, reorder them, dismem-ber them, turn them inside out, or obliterate them alto-gether. They signify, at some level, that your literary expres-sion ... most of them longand ambitious. And always—at least at the beginning, beforeword processors, when I still used my old Smith-Coronaportable the time would come when we’d sit down with the manuscript.This...