Technical, Scientific, and Professional Communication
Leslie Perelman
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Series of lectures and a workshop on Communication. See individual sessions for limitations on attendance. Co-sponsored by Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies; the Teaching and Learning Laboratory; School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Office of the Dean of Graduate Education, School of Engineering; Sloan School of Management.
Contact: Chelsey Norman, 12-117, x3-0650, chelseyn@mit.edu
Doctor Shapiro's Cheesecake Recipe: The Critical Role of Clear Communication in Scientific Research
Stuart Z. Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D. Chief NIAID Progr Officer, Ctr for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunolo
Using examples from his article in Vaccine on preparing US FDA applications for investigational new drugs, Dr. Shapiro will discuss the importance of clear communication in medical and scientific research, and then outline some common pitfalls and best practices in writing scientific documents.
Fri Jan 23, 03:30-05:00pm, 56-114
Invention and Arrangement: How Science and Engineering Students Learn to Write across the Curriculum
Dr. Suzanne T. Lane (MIT '85) Associate Director, Writing Across the Curriculum, MIT
Dr. Lane will map the landscape of writing development for students in science and engineering fields. The talk will address such questions as why students succeed in some writing assignments and not others, what they must know in order to write effectively in different subjects, and how they learn to negotiate the different methods of inventing and arranging arguments in many fields.
Mon Jan 26, 03:30-05:00pm, 56-114
Making the Most of your Presentations
Dr. Jean-Luc Doumont, Communication Consultant
Effective presentation skills are a major asset for engineers, scientists, and other professionals. Professional presentations hold a persuasive power not found in print documents or electronic messages. In this seminar you will hear about a five-step method for an effective presentation: how to plan it, design it, create the visual aids, deliver it, and answer questions. Handling nervousness will also be discussed.
Wed Jan 28, 02-04:00pm, 6-120
Structuring Your Scientific Paper
Dr. Jean-Luc Doumont, Communication Consutant
Written docs are a typical outcome, if not sole tangible deliverable, of the work of engineers, scientists, and other professionals. Well-designed, they allow reader to learn only what he or she needs. Poorly designed, they confuse readers, fail to encourage decisions, or remain unread. Will propose an effective structure applicable to documents in general, and to scientific papers and technical reports in particular.
Thu Jan 29, 02-04:00pm, 6-120
Making Presentation Slides More Effective
Michael P. Alley Assoc. Professor, College of Engineering, Penn State Univ
In a number of teaching situations, projecting PowerPoint slides is an appropriate way to help students conprehend and remember course information. This workshop aims to help engineering and sicence instructors improve their slides for those occasions. In the workshop, participants will learn: inherent assertion-evidence structure, and tested strategies for adopting the assertion-evidence structure.
Fri Jan 30, 10am-12:00pm, 56-114
WORKSHOP: Making Presentation Slides More Effective
Michael P. Alley Assoc. Professor, College of Engineering, Penn State Univers
This session is limited to 20 participants. To register contact Chelsey Norman, 3-0650, chelseyn@mit.edu. Participants are to prepare slides for critique at the workshop.
Fri Jan 30, 01:30pm-03:30am, 56-114
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