EFS 698C - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Writing and Presenting Research
EFS 698C - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Writing and Presenting Research
EFS 698C: Week 6
Notes
I. Review of presentation examples from Week 5
II. Example abstract review: can you determine the better and worse ones?
III. Lesson 4 answers; introduction to Lessons 5 and 6
IV. Process Presentations: focus on 1-2 performance issues
V. Looking for presentation techniques to copy: see assignment
VI. Extra: Notes on proposal writing: What are the reviewers looking for?
http://orsp.umich.edu/proposals/pwg/pwgcontents.HTML (proposal writer's guide)
https://gsas.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/atoms/files/Scholarly%20Pursuits_CURRENT.pdf Harvard professional development guide
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Homework:
1) Read Williams Lessons 5 & 6. Write 5.1 (2); Williams 6: 6.1 (4, 6)
2) Review your video and look for specific areas to improve. In addition, you may include parts of a current piece of writing for our weekly meeting--submit it the night before.
3) Finding presentation techniques to copy: do the following.
1) Find an example of a speaker online (https://www.ted.com/; https://ecorner.stanford.edu; other) who has one or more characteristics you would like to incorporate into your own speaking.
2) Come prepared next week to present and discuss your example briefly, explaining the element(s) that you find worthy of emulating (send me the URL of the clip by Monday at 8:00 pm). Phil's example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkC7ralR30
3) Then, take a 2 minute selection from any previous or future talk in which you demonstrate one or two techniques or stylistic points picked up from that speaker.
5) Bring in three printouts of an abstract you have written or rewritten to the next class for peer review.