<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A talk at CU that might be of interest. This one is also sponsored by the CU Graduate School, so presumably grad students are invited as well as postdocs. Please RSVP to the link below. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Paula</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">opa_communications (Leah Colvin)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opa_communications@lists.colorado.edu">opa_communications@lists.colorado.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:59 AM<br>Subject: [opa_communications] RSVP: Rethinking Scientific Presentations: The Assertion-Evidence Approach (Friday, 1/26)<br>To: "<a href="mailto:opa_communications@lists.colorado.edu">opa_communications@lists.colorado.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:opa_communications@lists.colorado.edu">opa_communications@lists.colorado.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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Assertion-Evidence Approach, a workshop on research presentations by Michael Alley, Associate Professor of Engineering Communication at Pennsylvania State University.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://click.communications.cu.edu/?qs=c248b7a767b77c34ccc1bb652e568d2afcae97c90c2f459afb62c8a997ddaa1c4264dae0c0c5d9ed53d305086bd3926872a3fb7188c77f14" target="_blank">Rethinking Scientific Presentations: The Assertion-Evidence
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<p>The <a href="http://click.communications.cu.edu/?qs=c248b7a767b77c348bd7b851446de6a3b49e9c77e445cb17bca5f8d11db530d182d2e05c2e1402d28af886436c2889eea6cc969337306a5c" target="_blank">
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Graduate School</a> and the 3MT Program invite you to <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Rethinking Scientific Presentations: The Assertion-Evidence Approach</span></strong>, a workshop on research presentations by
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Michael Alley</span></strong>, Associate Professor of Engineering Communication at Pennsylvania State University.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Abstract</span></strong><br>
>From an audience's perspective, many presentations in science and engineering suffer because the talks are unfocused. This lack of focus leads to much noise, which reduces the understanding by the audience. Much of the problem arises from speakers following
PowerPoint's defaults and building their talks on phrase headlines supported by bulleted lists. This workshop presents the assertion-evidence approach (<a href="http://click.communications.cu.edu/?qs=c248b7a767b77c34027880507d30bc8daa6dc56dd33c39ac5d48d577cd8d27297b610f2dea49038efe236820003d1dc6c3ce1c1964288a9d" target="_blank">http://www.assertion-<wbr>evidence.com</a>)
to designing scientific presentations. In this approach, the speaker builds the talk on key messages supported by visual evidence. Our research has found that assertion-evidence talks are more focused and much better understood by audiences. In addition, our
students (even those initially nervous about making presentations) report that using the assertion-evidence approach has given them more confidence. To this workshop, participants are encouraged to bring a laptop and to create a couple of slides beforehand
for their research using the following tutorial: <a href="http://click.communications.cu.edu/?qs=c248b7a767b77c343b3b1c240fe71017f931068d08aaaa207fc49891eee5488e2d29778e7deff9d1bae64177f7f46f44f3221e3df3d9332c" target="_blank">
http://www.assertion-evidence.<wbr>com/tutorial.html</a>. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">About the Speaker</span></strong><br>
Holding a master of science in electrical engineering and a master of fine arts in writing, Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Penn State. He is the author of
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The Craft of Scientific Presentations</span></em> (Springer, 2013), which has been translated to Japanese and Chinese. Over the past decade, he has taught presentations to scientists and engineers across
the United States and in Europe, Asia, and South America. Sites include Google, MIT, Harvard Medical School, the University of Illinois, Sandia National Laboratories, Texas Instruments, Simula Research Laboratory (Norway), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and
the University of San Paulo. Alley's websites on presentations are top Google listings for both
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">engineering presentations</span></em> and
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">scientific presentations</span></em>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">Paula Fisher
Administrator</font><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif">National Center for Atmospheric Research<br>Education & Outreach and
The Advanced Study Program
</font><br><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap"><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap"></pre></pre></pre><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap"></pre><font face="garamond, serif">Office: <a href="tel:(303)+497-1328" value="+13034978623" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">303-497-1328</a><br>Email: <a href="mailto:paulad@ucar.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">paulad@ucar.edu</a></font></pre></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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