Your Views on Short Talk

Scaled Scores: range 4-12; medium 8; average 8.

1. Main Points. Often "take home message" the class got was not mine. But we graded on the uniformity of the class response.
2. Quality. Read carefully what your classmates wrote. There is a important information there, even if you don't like it.
3. Viewgraphs. Look for specific complaints for things that don't work. Many of my earlier points were the same as class.
   • Type fonts are too small. Viewgraph hard to read.
   • Figures not clear; point of figure not on viewgraph.
   • Viewgraph didn't have main points. Had too much/little.
4. Organization.
   • Introduction missing; left out key ideas; only verbal.
   • Summary missing, too short or weak.
   • Development "jumped" around; was choppy; classmate couldn't detect the flow of the argument.
5. Comments individualized to each speaker. Read carefully for clues for improving talk, especially "echos" from other items.