How to Give an Effective Presentation

Analysis of comments from individual speaker evaluations from the STR 2002 Course revealed common features of ineffective lecturing (Table) [8]. The negative feature that was commented on most often (12.4%), and directed at the largest number of faculty (63%) was poor content. Other negative features included poor delivery, image slides, text slides, command of the English language, and handouts. Positive comments did not provide descriptive information regarding effective lectures. Table. Summary of negative comments from individual speaker evaluations