The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid

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Summary: Textbook that is actually interesting
Review: I give about a dozen technical presentations a year at trade shows, and I learned a lot from this book. I am changing my Powerpoint slides using many of the tips in this book, including complete sentence in the headline. I had designed my slides to help me remember my points. I should have been designing them so the audience could understand them. Besides giving me a better understanding of what I am trying to accomplish, the book was a fun read with numerous stories from the famous and not so famous. There were times it was actually hard to put the book down.

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Summary: get it now and see how much help it offers
Review: I present daily at medical school in Italy - my job is teaching how to present in fact. This book suggests what to do and what to avoid when facing this dramatic situation. Great stuff here concerning every aspect of preparing and delivery of a talk. Loved it.

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Summary: A must have for anybody in the science or engineering field
Review: It's well worth every penny!

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Summary: a great book that kept my interest
Review: This is the first of Michael Alley's books that I have read and I'm ordering his other two "The Craft Of..." books tonight. He is terrific at getting technical information across in an engaging and entertaining way. The book is full of short stories about scientists (some famous, like Einstein, Feynman and McClintock) and incidents, which he uses as examples to get his points across. A critical resource for anyone who gives technical presentations. I'm buying copies for each of my graduate students.

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Summary: a great book that kept my interest
Review: This is the first of Michael Alley's books that I have read and I'm ordering his other two "The Craft Of..." books tonight. He is terrific at getting technical information across in an engaging and entertaining way. The book is full of short stories about scientists (some famous, like Einstein, Feynman and McClintock) and incidents, which he uses as examples to get his points across. A critical resource for anyone who gives technical presentations. I'm buying copies for each of my graduate students.