Ad Naseaum Droning Skills

cholars conduct original, high-level research and present their findings in academic papers, reports, presentations, and social media. Your assignments assess your ability and ask you to demonstrate these skills in an effective manner and to identify areas where you need improvement before you moveo n to the more intense and difficult courses in your program. It is likely you will be present PPTs with regularity. Get it righr here before you have actually stand in front of a room full of people. Here are some tips:

What was the worst part of college? Rhetorical of course. Dr. Sandmann droning inexorably off his notes in an achingly relentless monotone in an unventilated room eight degrees above tolerable crammed with sweaty people who are convinced they are close to death. Unfortunately, technology has not solved this problem. If anything, the room is hotter with all the hardware humming along. In my experience, there are few things in academia or business worse than a presenter with a projector reading his bullet point text slides to me one after another. For example:

Slide 1:

Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah
Slide 2:

Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah
AND on and on and on ad naseaum infinitum Slides 3-29.

Steven Wright once said, "49.3 percent
I quit forcing my undergraduates to present to our class since so many of them, 62.7 percent actually, would start hyperventilating and break out into a skin disorder by the mere thought that they would have to stand in front of a group of mostly strangers and say something of substance for a few minutes. "Not so easy, hey kid," I often chuckled to myself. While my presentations might have their flaws, they have served me well, enabling me for years to blather on for ninety minutes at a time without a single note. Yours will too if you work hard on it, practice it, revise it, learn the software's features, and be creative and have fun with it. A good PPT is a great