Course for foreign scholars to improve their presentation skills in English

[Debra L. Martin]

FYI:

Postdocs and Visiting Researchers

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 November 2009 and January 2010. 

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 November course is on Nov. 18, 25 and Dec. 2.

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

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

Course students are not required to take all sessions, but may do so 
if they are interested.

For more information about the course, you may contact the following: 
Jason Tetreault, ESL coordinator, at 617-547-6789 ext.201
or Thelma Leaffer, PhD, www.tleaffer at netzero.net. 

Information will also be posted in the CCAE's catalog description of 
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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