Giving Presentations in English-Cambridge Center for Adult Education

[Debra L. Martin]

FYI, please contact Thelma Leaffer, PhD, www.tleaffer at netzero.net 
with any questions.

Foreign Postdocs, Visiting Researchers and Graduate Students
Improve your confidence and skills in giving presentations in English


The Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE) in Harvard Square, 
Cambridge is offering a new "Strategic Presentations" mini three week 
intensive course for foreign scholars, post-docs, researchers, and 
graduate students in January and February  2010. Fifty per cent of 
the first class given in November included MIT students.

This course was suggested by two foreign post-doctoral scholars from 
MIT and Harvard who wanted to improve their presentation skills in 
English. Although they were very good at written English, they were 
less confident about their ability to make presentations to others. 
The course has been designed with this in mind.

The students in this course are required to prepare strategic topics 
they expect to present in English at their US universities. These 
will include their own summaries of the topics, current related 
reference bibliographies, supplementary illustrations related to 
their presentations using digital images from their computers, and 
brief summaries of their academic backgrounds and work experiences. 
There will be no textbook for the course.

Dr. Thelma Leaffer, the course developer and instructor, is a former 
MIT consultant who has worked with MIT graduate students and 
researchers in the past.

The Strategic Presentations course will be offered on Wednesdays from 
11:00AM-12:30 PM in three sections:

The Winter "Section 1" course is on January 13, 20, and 27.

Winter "Section 2" course is on February 3, 10, and 17.

The fee is $165.

Course students are not required to take all sessions, but may take 
more than one session if they are interested. You can register online 
or by calling the center at 617-547-6789 ext. 1. You should register 
by January 4th. For more information about the course, you may 
contact the following:

Thelma Leaffer, PhD, www.tleaffer at netzero.net.

Information will also be posted in the CCAE's catalog description of 
ESL courses. The CCAE is located at 42 Brattle Street in Cambridge.

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Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager
MIT
Vice President for Research Office, Rm 11-268
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
617-258-0310, 617-252-1003 (fax)
debra at mit.edu
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