{"id":214,"date":"2007-06-24T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/06\/24\/papers-and-slides\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T20:42:12","slug":"papers-and-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/06\/papers-and-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers and Slides"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was chair\u00ading the XML<\/span> Con\u00adfer\u00adence<\/a>, one of the things I tried very hard to con\u00advince speak\u00aders to do was to write up their talks as pro\u00adceed\u00adings, and not just use slides. The main reas\u00adon for that was that 6 months after giv\u00ading a talk, often\u00adtimes the speak\u00aders can\u00ad\u2019t fig\u00adure out what they meant with those slides, let alone people try\u00ading to make sense of them on their own. A writ\u00adten paper is much bet\u00adter at giv\u00ading people the inform\u00ada\u00adtion they\u2019re look\u00ading for.<\/p>\n

So I was inter\u00adested to see that Present\u00ada\u00adtion Zen<\/a> recently wrote on the same top\u00adic. As the author says:<\/p>\n

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Power\u00adPoint is not the cause of bad busi\u00adness present\u00ada\u00adtions, but lazi\u00adness and poor writ\u00ading skills may be. The point is not to place more text with\u00adin tiny slides inten\u00added for images and visu\u00adal dis\u00adplays of data. The point is to first (usu\u00adally) cre\u00adate a well-writ\u00adten, detailed doc\u00adu\u00adment. Do busi\u00adness people still know how to write?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Recently I\u2019ve star\u00adted try\u00ading a dif\u00adfer\u00adent way of cre\u00adat\u00ading slide decks. I pull togeth\u00ader a few slides with pic\u00adtures or bul\u00adlets, then write a doc\u00adu\u00adment with gram\u00admat\u00adic\u00adal Eng\u00adlish, pic\u00adtur\u00ading myself actu\u00adally giv\u00ading the talk, writ\u00ading what I plan to say. This leads to addi\u00adtions and changes in the slides, and makes them more into the sup\u00adport\u00ading visu\u00adals that I think they should be. In the ideal case, I\u2019d have time after the actu\u00adal present\u00ada\u00adtion to edit the writ\u00adten-out talk to reflect what I really did say and pub\u00adlish that togeth\u00ader with the slides. I real\u00adise that the slides on their own often aren\u2019t much use to any\u00adone who was\u00adn\u2019t at the talk, or 6 months after\u00adwards for any\u00adone who was; that\u2019s not always a prob\u00adlem depend\u00ading on the audi\u00adence and the actu\u00adal pur\u00adpose of the talk. <\/p>\n

I do know of people who put a lot of work into mak\u00ading their slide decks suit\u00adable for teach\u00ading pur\u00adposes on their own without sup\u00adport\u00ading doc\u00adu\u00adments; those people who are good at that often use extens\u00adive speak\u00ader\u00ad\u2019s notes. And they\u2019re usu\u00adally also good at writ\u00ading those full-length papers. Which leads me to sus\u00adpect that there is some\u00adthing to the slide-deck style that is appeal\u00ading \u2014 maybe it\u2019s the sense that you get the import\u00adant inform\u00ada\u00adtion in the bul\u00adlets? Maybe it\u2019s respond\u00ading to people\u2019s lazi\u00adness in reading? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was chair\u00ading the XML<\/span> Con\u00adfer\u00adence, one of the things I tried very hard to con\u00advince speak\u00aders to do was to write up their talks as pro\u00adceed\u00adings, and not just use slides. The main reas\u00adon for that was that 6 months after giv\u00ading a talk, often\u00adtimes the speak\u00aders can\u00ad\u2019t fig\u00adure out what they meant \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cPapers and Slides\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}