yes there's an interesting cross-tension = even though the academics often write less engagingly they have a better sense of length and of how to deliver to a class of bored infants students, while the journos write better but have next to no delivery skeez
(tho it's actually not that cut and dried, and plenty of the papers were good both ways)
I'm in a writing group and I've discovered that I can't read for shit, all the various tones of voices, shades of meaning, etc. that I put into my writing to make my writing read as a voice don't help my actual voice to sound like a voice when I'm reading. Whereas I can speak well and animatedly, even though I "um" and "you know" and [laughs] far too much (and haven't spoken much for a formal audience). I would probably go for the notes thing if I ever had a "paper" to give. But I'd try to make sure it was recorded.
He really was! And then, being ignorant of these things, I couldn't really understand the lyrics in the sound clips he played, so I got really lost.
I think next time (should there be one) I'm definitely going to go from notes too--some of the best presentations I saw did that, as they were generally more lively.
Re: this was the proposal
Date: 2007-04-24 02:27 pm (UTC)apparentlysimonreynoldswasmumblingintohispieceofpaperandreadingitverbatim again...
Re: this was the proposal
Date: 2007-04-24 02:50 pm (UTC)infantsstudents, while the journos write better but have next to no delivery skeez(tho it's actually not that cut and dried, and plenty of the papers were good both ways)
Re: this was the proposal
Date: 2007-04-24 04:49 pm (UTC)Re: this was the proposal
Date: 2007-04-24 03:05 pm (UTC)I think next time (should there be one) I'm definitely going to go from notes too--some of the best presentations I saw did that, as they were generally more lively.
Re: this was the proposal
Date: 2007-04-24 03:16 pm (UTC)Re: this was the proposal
Date: 2007-04-24 05:31 pm (UTC)