tailieunhanh - The Craft of Scientific Presentations - M Alley (Springer 2003) Episode 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the craft of scientific presentations - m alley (springer 2003) episode 3', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 32 The Craft of Scientific Presentations municate Part of the problem was language he often intermixed German and English neither of which was his native tongue Another part was Bohr s passion for being precise. Bohr often focused on the edges of what he knew. According to Einstein Bohr stated his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of definite truth. 8 Bohr s attention to precision in his speech unfortunately occurred at the expense of clarity. Notice in the beginning of his Nobel Prize address how his striving for accuracy causes his first sentence to lengthen to the point of being difficult to follow Today as a consequence of the great honor the Swedish Academy of Sciences has done me in awarding me this year s Nobel Prize for Physics for my work on the structure of the atom it is my duty to give an account of the results of this work and I think that I shall be acting in accordance with the traditions of the Nobel Foundation if I give this report in the form of a survey of the development which has taken place in the last few years within the field of physics to which this work A single sentence of this length an audience can handle but when most of the sentences have this kind of wandering the audience is pressed to stay with the speaker. The above example shows what not to do in targeting an audience. Now the questions arises How do you target a specific audience When your audience consists of people whom you know well targeting the audience is straightforward. As you prepare the presentation point by point you continually ask yourself two questions 1 Will the audience understand these points and 2 Will the audience be interested in these points A more difficult situation arises when you do not know the audience well. Before such a presentation many good speakers move out into the audience before the presentation and ask questions What kind of work do you do Why did you come .