Another nice guide is "Giving an Academic Talk" http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html . - Bill Richard said: ***************************************** ABSTRACT: Presentations at professional meetings are usually soporific. For almost half a century physicists such as K.K. Darrow, Jim Garland, and David Mermin wrote articles which failed to improve the quality of talks at meetings of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) . But hope springs eternal. Perhaps the insightful Scott Berkun, coming out of Carnegie Mellon with a degree in Logic and Computation, and a sterling record of publications, can stem the tide of mediocrity with his latest book "Confessions of a Public Speaker." ***************************************** [snip] -- *------------------------------------------------------* | Bill Goffe [log in to unmask] | | Department of Economics voice: (315) 312-3444 | | SUNY Oswego fax: (315) 312-5444 | | 416 Mahar Hall http://cook.rfe.org | | Oswego, NY 13126 | *--------*------------------------------------------------------*-----------* | "Great Moments at Work" | | -- part of an ad for Microsoft Office System next to a story titled | | "Microsoft Offers Reward to Stop Viruses" in the on-line New York | | Times on November 5, 2003. | *---------------------------------------------------------------------------*