Once Upon a Molecule or How many ways can we give a scientific talk?
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1999
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PUB TYPE:
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Conference Paper in Proceedings
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narrative as a model for undergraduate enginering students' oral presentations
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Education
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-376-984
(Last edited on
2007/03/06 08:39:01 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
This is a story of inquiry. It is set in university classrooms and seminar rooms: places where scientists have to stand up and present their work to an audience. It is a teaching and learning story. The authors have been teaching oral presentation skills for many years, but feel that there has been something missing in their approach. It's fairly clear to them why some scientific talks are so bad to listen to that you wish you were somewhere else. But it isn't so clear why some are so inspiring that you wish you could do half as well. So they set out to look for examples of 'better than average' talks. They find one and begin to look at their data. They soon realise that to really understand what's going on, they have to look further than just the performance of the talk itself (the public speaking act). The way in which the presenter speaks about science is quite different to the way he writes about science. His spoken form creates very different images to that of the traditional research paper. How he does this, and to a lesser extent, why he does this, are considered in this paper. And finally, the question is asked: what other ways are there to talk about science?
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