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- From: ken@visix.com (Ken Mayer)
- Subject: Re: thoughts for paper presenters
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:46:52 GMT
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- -->On Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:21:32 GMT, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) said:
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- Henry> In a continuing effort to make Usenix papers more worth
- Henry> listening to :-), some thoughts for the presenter, especially
- Henry> the first-time presenter...
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- Henry> Run through your talk at least once in advance ...
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- Practise in front of the mirror in the hotel room. It may look funny,
- but you'll get a much better idea of how you "present" yourself (do
- you wave your hands around, etc.); you'll be much less self conscious.
-
- Henry> Say something interesting.
-
- Yes. Absolutely. One thing everyone should keep in mind: All of us can
- read. [I hope!] I would prefer to hear something that you didn't put
- in the paper because it didn't fit in, or maybe that war story you've
- been dying to tell. Add some color. That's not the same as fluff.
- Papers have a tendancy to report the results of an investigation. I
- personally find the history behind the research fascinating and it
- gives me a much better understanding of what's going on.
-
- Ken
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