Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Still preparing for that conference...

Mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was at work preparing a presentation for the ISHR conference in LA. I'm still at it and the conference is (ack!) next week! As usual, my paper is about 3 times too long for the 20 minutes I'll have to talk. And I still haven't mastered the art of talking quickly (never managed to go to the SusanSinclairSchool of SpeedSpeech, unfortunately). So have no choice but to continue hacking away at the paper. I'm trying to paraphrase all the things I had quoted (hate saying "According to Burke, Quote ... Endquote"). Then I have to figure out how much of the theory I should toss and how many stories I should cut. I don't know about others, but I always prefer to hear stories in conference presentations. Any other suggestions? (ERG will say, "Finish it!")

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Finish it!--ERG :-)

senioritis said...

Handouts. Put a bunch of your stuff in handouts and just refer to it and say you'll be glad to answer questions about that material. And then you can just make 1- or 2-sentence claims in your paper that are evidenced in the handouts. ???

Jonathan Benda said...

Thanks, ERG and Senioritis--I will definitely "finish it!" (almost wrote "fish it") and make a handout.