(Rerun) How to Construct an Informative Presentation
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May 21, 2013
Reader Comments (14)
You owe me a new laughbox for panel 4.
Against my better judgement I will probably show my wife, who is an English teacher, this comic.
It doesn't say "Rerun" anywhere and it's copyright date is 2010.
Fixed. This is, indeed, a rerun from 2010. ~Missy
Panel 1 for the win. Wait, panel 2 for the win. Hold on. Panel three. Definitely FTW. HOLD EVERYTHING! Public Education system... WINNER!!!
It's the PPT presenters who put up a slide with a lot of words THEN READ THEM OUT that piss me off.
If all you're going to do is say what's written on the slide, GFTO of the way and let us read it without YOU droning on!
Part 4: dumb questions and snarky remarks
A timeless classic, and I have indeed heard this before.
If you rerun it once more, you'll have a cumulative metapresentation.
This "American public school method" is also classical rhetoric, a trimmed down version of dispositio, the method of arguing cases used by people like Cicero.
That is essentially how I remember my 7th grade public school teacher instructing us for our first ever term papers. And yes, it is still a painfully dull memory that I will never be rid of. In fact, it may just be my last thought before I die...."conclusion."
10 Goto 20
20 Goto 10
I am very happy you re-posted this as I have not seen it before. I about busted a gut. Thanks!
John Walters: love it! The comic is hilarious but your comment piled on nicely! Metapresentation, indeed. Please mark this on your calendar, Scott, for implementation in the future. Or, as a good footnote to your next book!
You forgot the fourth part: PowerPoint.