the craft of scientific presentations pdf

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... contains some truth. The unexpected realization of truth then makes people laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems ... some of which are shown in Figure 2-1a, the presenters of the proposal used referenced facts and the opinions of ex- perts to assign a cut-off value. The establishment of these criteria formed the ... became the C-portion of the syllogism and the main evidence that contributed to the awarding of the contract. Statistics are another form of logical evidence, and their power varies widely. At the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... contains some truth. The unexpected realization of truth then makes people laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which 14 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems ... Thole ◆ 10 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Implicit in the opinions held by an audience of a presentation are the biases of the audience toward the subject and speaker. An example of this ... some of which are shown in Figure 2-1a, the presenters of the proposal used referenced facts and the opinions of ex- perts to assign a cut-off value. The establishment of these criteria formed the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 08:20

... 88 xiii 10 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Implicit in the opinions held by an audience of a presentation are the biases of the audience toward the subject and speaker. An example of this ... widely. 11 That variety of opinions about the effectiveness of a presenter is not surprising; to see this spread, one simply has to read a set of teaching evaluations of a university profes- sor. 6THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC ... upon the speaker, is that the success of the presentation depends upon the delivery of the speaker. If the speaker is so nervous or befuddled that he or she cannot communicate the ideas to the...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 08:21

... it is situated at the mouth of the Dart. But it is no part of the signification of the word John, that the father of the person so called bore the same name; nor even of the word Dartmouth, ... fundamental, the enumeration of the different kinds of realities may be abridged accordingly. But to impose upon the facts in the first instance the yoke of a theory, while the grounds of the theory ... directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; 4 the latter, of Inference. The truths known by intuition are the original...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

... 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 ... some truth. The unexpected realization of truth then makes people laugh. At the beginning of a presentation in which 38 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Presentations to Inform. For presentations ... important. 4THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS A second advantage of making a presentation is that a presentation allows the speaker the opportunity to ob- serve the reactions of the audience...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 18:20

... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited while she finished. Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them ... did—no knitted brows, just the blank screen of her face, the outside world absent. For a moment, the room lay still. Until, abruptly: “Oh, yes, Foreword For my father, who would have been so ... blank ©2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press Foreword © 2003 Robert Kanigel All rights reserved. Published 2003 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 987654321 The Johns...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... interest in it. Science writers and editors needn’t start off knowing much science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci- ence, be ... one way or the other, sitting beside her at her desk, the manuscript on the sliding desk tray between us, I learned. I can attest to the wisdom of the writerly injunctions you’ll find in these pages ... intelligent questions, and shake off the high intimidation quotient of a dense, jargon-laden article in the Proceedings of the National Acad- emy of Sciences. Elise was a member of this breed; she was...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the neutron. They should be connected to- gether, if this theory was right, ... is available from the British Library. would go no further—“30 percent; we cannot say more than 30 percent”—till they were sure I had the message. Then they would shut the of ce door. “But let ... going to be all of them, or al- most all. This is going to be awful!—an old-fashioned epi- demic like none of us has ever seen!” The better the scien- tist, the larger the scruple and the more he...

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Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2012, 15:24

... trigger their adrenaline. So they often thrive as staff, goaded on by the rest of the group (not to mention the boss). Gregarious types may not need goad- ing but wilt in a life that leaves them ... and fer- tilize and weed. There is work to be done. But the work pays off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and micro- climate of the particular garden. Is there some subject or writing ... would arrive at the of ce and see that, actually, the work was not so bad. So I’d patch and polish (always fun, the exercise of craft) , then start a new segment on that momentum. The next day I...

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