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ABSTRACT: In a previous post [Hake (2010a)] I
pointed to Scott Berkun's (2009) excellent
"Confessions of a Public Speaker." Later I became
aware of three other valuable papers on public
speaking and writing: (a) "Giving an Academic
Talk'" by Berkeley computer scientist Jonathan
Shewchuk (undated), (b) "How to talk
Mathematics" [Halmos (1974)], and (c) "How to
write Mathematics" [Halmos (1970)]. The latter
two are by the late mathematician and expositor
Paul Halmos
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Halmos>.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
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REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy <http://tinyurl.com/create.php>.]
Berkun, S. 2009. "Confessions of a Public
Speaker." O'Reilly Media, publisher's
information, including the table of contents and
a short video are at
<http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802004>. Note
the "Browse Contents" feature. Amazon.com
information at <http://tinyurl.com/y9z37ag>. Note
the searchable "Look Inside" feature. For two
free chapters from the book see
<http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/free-chapters-from-confessions>.
Hake, R.R. 2010a. "Re: Confessions of a Public
Speaker," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at
<http://tinyurl.com/yh3hujm>. Post of 25 Feb 2010
08:29:05-0800 to AERA-L, Phys-L, PhysLrnR, and
Net-Gold. In addition, the abstract and URL for
the complete post was transmitted to various
discussion lists. The abstract is also online at
<http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2010/02/re-confessions-of-public-speaker.html>
with a provision for comments.
Hake, R.R. 2010b. "Re: Confessions of a Public
Speaker - ADDENDA," online on the OPEN! AERA-L
archives at <http://tinyurl.com/yat23vy>. Post of
27 Feb 2010 11:00:27-0800 to AERA-L, Net-Gold,
and PhysLrnR. The abstract is also being
transmitted to various discussion lists and is
online at
<http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2010/02/re-confessions-of-public-speaker_27.html>
with a provision for comments.
Halmos, P.R. 1970. "How to write Mathematics,"
L'Enseignement Mathématique 16; online as a 3.4
MB pdf at <http://tinyurl.com/ydmfnov>.
Halmos, P.R. 1974. "How to talk Mathematics,
"Notices of AMS 21: 155-158; online at
<http://www.math.northwestern.edu/graduate/Forum/HALMOS.html>.
Summary: "My recommendations amount to this: make
it simple, organized and short. Make your lecture
simple (special and concrete); be sure to prove
something and ask something; prepare, in detail;
organize the content and adjust to the level of
the audience; keep it short, and, to be sure of
doing so, prepare it so as to make it flexible.
Remember that you are talking in order to attract
the listeners to your subject and to inform them
about it; and remember that less is more."
Shewchuk,J. undated. "Giving an Academic Talk,"
online at
<http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html>.
Summary: ". . . .minimize words and maximize
pictures. Your slides are not there to remind you
what to say. Bullet points make your audience
feel your talk is in bullet time."
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