WHAT DO INSTRUCTORS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TEACHING TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS?

You are an instructor of technical communication. You teach three sections of this course. It is the end of the semester, and students are required to give a talk of about fifteen minutes on a technical issue. That is 75 talks you will watch and critique. You know you have a bevy of brilliant students talking about complex, exciting work. The days march on, and you watch seventy-five presentations in which students have used slides. Each slide has a fragment as a header and three to nine bullets of text. If you are lucky, sometimes a graph shows up on