Technical Communication Seminar

Syllabus

Here are the files to the LaTeX slide show I demoed during our meeting on February 20: Slides in LaTeX. You can also copy them to a directory in your math.duke.edu account with the following commands: If it gives you an error about the auto directory, don't worry, you don't need those files.

The evaluation sheet based on our discussion TalkEvaluationSheet.pdf

Notes on these and other articles by grad students in our seminar

• The Short Talk by Charles Van Loan
• How To Give a Talk: Advice on Preparing and Presenting Technical Talks in the Mathematical Sciences by Tamara G. Kolda
• How to Prepare a Poster by Sven Hammarling and Nicholas J. Higham
• PowerPoint Does Rocket Science by Edward Tufte (He's written several books about technical communication.)
• Online Technical Writing: Online Textbook by David A. McMurrey. The chapter on Oral Presentations is especially relevant to our second year grad student seminar
• Oral Presentation Advice by Mark D. Hill
• Presentation Rubric which seems to be intended for high school student presentations but it's still informative for teachers and professional scientists

• Pedagogy, a chapter from the Physics Virtual Bookshelf, maintained by David M. Harrison