Speaking about Science: A Manual for Creating Clear Presentations
Essential reading for professionals who present data at meetings and academic conferences. This is an important career skill for anyone in the sciences, and the book features step-by-step instruction for creating clear and compelling presentations, from structuring a talk and developing effective PowerPoint slides through delivery before an audience. Includes color examples of slides and posters from actual presentations, and field-tested methods for success behind the podium.
Organizational Skills offers strategies and exercises that students can use to complete tasks and projects effectively and on time. Anecdotes about real people and advice from professionals are used to highlight various points. Statistics are scattered throughout the text, along with black-and-white photographs, fact boxes, quotes, charts, and examples of recommended strategies, and each chapter is nicely summarized.
The book is rich and realistic: rich in the array of strategies and examples that work, and realistic in that it is based on vivid examples of how youngsters misbehave....Cowley has some illuminating and always useful ideas. Her advice is practical, sound and interspersed with imaginative ideas that arrest attention.
RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS This series gives the classroom teacher a guide to the practice of key aspects of language teaching, and considers some of the underlying concepts. In each book an introduction presenting important current issues in the area under consideration is followed by examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques.
