Abstract for Stephanie Solt's talk

Yikes! My abstract was accepted! Practical skills for effective presentations
Stephanie Solt (CUNY Graduate Center)
March 17, 2005 (Thursday)
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM; Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center

Whether it's a simple in-class presentation or a talk at a major conference, presenting our work is an important part of our academic lives. But we get little formal instruction in how to give an effective, interesting presentation. In this session, we will discuss basic presentation skills: organizing the content of your presentation, designing effective visuals, delivering the presentation clearly and confidently, answering questions, and managing the inevitable fear that comes with presenting. We'll also talk about some things you can do every day to build your skills as a presenter.
After the Professional Development talk (at approximately 5:45), we invite you stay to hear CUNY's own Xuan-Nga Cao Kam, Iglika Stoyneshka and Lidiya Tornyova rehearse the paper they will be presenting at the upcoming CUNY conference, entitled "Non-robustness of syntax acquisition from n-grams: A cross-linguistic perspective."
This workshop will take place from 4:15 to 6:15 in the usual place (room 6417), but everyone will move to room 6421 for post-talk discussion.