<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">Greetings and Happy Friday!<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">On Wednesday we held a small workshop for undergraduate researchers on how to prepare a good talk. These resources may be useful to you. It involves the Assertion-Evidence model for giving talks, which is a totally different way of presenting than the science community has been doing for the past 40 years. Check it out.</span></font></div><div><div></div></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;text-indent:0in"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Giving a Strong Talk Using the Assertion-Evidence Model </b> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;text-indent:0in"><span class="gmail_default" style="">(</span></span><a href="https://www.assertion-evidence.com/templates.html" target="_blank" style="text-indent:0in"><span class="gmail_default">website with resources</span></a>)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><b style="color:black;text-indent:0in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></b></p></div><div><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:black"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Videos: </b><i> (it's really worth watching these)</i></span></font></span></p><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:black"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:black"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">1. "<a href="https://www.assertion-evidence.com/">Build talks on messages not topics</a>" (4.5 min) (Found on this web page)</span></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:black"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:black"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">2. "<a href="https://www.assertion-evidence.com/">Support messages with visuals not bullets</a>" (<5 min)</span></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:black"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="text-indent:0in">3. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc2COAZD1nk" target="_blank">"Assertion-evidence slides for a research talk"</a>  (27 min) </span><span style="text-indent:0in">Michael Alley explains the science behind th<span class="gmail_default" style="">is </span>approach<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="">including</span> the science of how the brain (and those of audience members) can learn and can't learn. . <span class="gmail_default" style="">In the 1980s a Canadian psychologist figured out that people use the same part of their brain to read and to listen.  Not too long afterwards, an Australian determined that this part of the brain could be overloaded by having too much information come in. </span></span>It's fascinating</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;text-indent:0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;text-indent:0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">4. To see a good example of a TED TALK using the Assertion-Evidence approach, <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/cheryl_hayashi_the_magnificence_of_spider_silk?language=en">watch this one on spiders</a>.</span></font></p><p style="line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;text-indent:0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_lk3002uy2" alt="Screen Shot 2023-07-14 at 1.54.29 PM.png" width="502" height="347"></font><p style="line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;text-indent:0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;text-indent:0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;text-indent:0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b>Slide Templates:</b> </span>Assertion-Evidence<span class="gmail_default" style=""> (A-E)</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">slide templates </span><a href="https://www.assertion-evidence.com/templates.html" style="text-indent:0in" target="_blank">are found at the<span class="gmail_default" style=""> A-E</span> website</a><span class="gmail_default" style=""> or you can make your own. There are good examples in those slide decks, though.</span></font></p><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="text-indent:0in"><br></span></font></p><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Slides: </b>See the attached PDF for the slides from the workshop.</span></font></p><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">* * * * * * * * * * </span><br></font></p><p style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;margin:0pt 0in;unicode-bidi:embed"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span><br></font></p></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">May you have a wonderful weekend!</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>Val<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></font></div></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Valerie Sloan, Ph.D.<br></font></div></div><div>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