Revisiting past presentation
Of time-limit/slide-share persuasion;
Extending dispersive
In next month’s four verses:
Throughout summer, prose motivation.
Once again, June 30 has somehow already arrived; once again, it is worth taking some deliberate time to plan for more creative writing in July, to make sure I don’t lose track of the entire season. This year, I will use the next four weeks to expand on a conference presentation that I gave last summer, which overlaps with several of the topics discussed on this website.
Revisiting past presentation /
Of time-limit/slide-share persuasion…
As noted above, this will be a chance to expand on an academic presentation in a less formal mode. For me, such talks can be challenging given their time constraints and the accompanying need to create a set of slides (PowerPoint, etc.) for a central focus; they are a medium of the “time-limit/slide-share persuasion.”
The title of this post alludes to the fact that these essays will have a similar theme to last year’s conference presentation, although revisiting the theme in this form has involved a delay: this second look has been “tabled” for a while.
Extending dispersive /
In next month’s four verses…
Over the course of the next four weeks, I will expand on each of four general points from the talk: limericks in science poetry; double dactyls in science poetry; main themes of science communication; and general references and resources.
As has become the norm for these posts, I will introduce each of these themes in a brief verse, then “extend [the theme] dispersive,” including more supporting nuance via a brief essay. This routine will ideally continue through each Friday in July.
Throughout summer, prose motivation.
It is even more remarkable this year than in some previous summers how quickly the month of June flew by, via academic-year-ending paperwork and previously postponed appointments. The past two summers’ mini-projects have been useful in converting brief poems from the stuff of marginalia to more substantive writing, using July as effectively as possible; ideally, such “prose motivation” will continue again in the month ahead.
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