LC-1112 Presentation Skills for Engineers (flex)
Assignment 2: Analysing a talk
The purpose of this activity is to find an interesting presentation in English from the Internet and to analyze the talk for its strengths and weaknesses. The talk should be somewhat related to your field (technical/scientific/business world). Explore the Internet to find a suitable talk for you to analyze or you might try to find a talk that interests you in one of the following links:
Short science presentations http://poptech.org/blog/categories/Science
Technology, Entertainment and Design http://www.ted.com/talks
- Watch the talk and analyze it for its strengths and weaknesses. What does the speaker do well? Is there room for improvement?
- Post the following information in this Forum:
(1) the link of the talk you analyzed
(2) short paragraph (a) summarizing what the talk is about and (b) pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of the talk.