Event
SKILLSETS - Talking it up without dumbing it down: How to communicate with non-experts
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 15:30to17:00
McLennan Library Building
3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
You鈥檝e spent years delving deeply into your field. But now it鈥檚 your first year on the job, and you have to give a talk to alumni and donors鈥� or speak to a reporter鈥� or convince the CEO of your company why what you do is important鈥� or are staring into the eyes of a first-year class. You launch into your talk and you鈥檙e met with blank looks. Gulp. How do you translate that hard-won knowledge into language that a non-expert can understand?
Come to this interactive session and learn some tricks and techniques to help you speak simply about complicated research.
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