Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Students should write out their talks

I forgot this. I remember I did it for my first few talks.

Writing out the complete text of the talk may stop several things happening due to nerves
-going too fast and skipping over details
-going too slow because of going into too much detail
-getting stuck and not knowing what to say

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