As a suggested pre-workshop assignment, create an abbreviated set of presentation slides about a technical project on which you are working. Your set of slides should contain at least 6 slides, should identify the project, should justify the importance of that project, should map the middle of what would be a complete presentation of that project, and then should present a slide from each section of the presentation's middle. To create these slides, please use the following slide template. You are also advised to look at examples on the following web page.

The following schedule presents the topics, exercises, and readings for the workshop on rethinking the design of presentation slides. The readings are from The Craft of Scientific Presentations.

Topic/Activity	Reading/Activity
Making slides more readable Making slides more memorable Making slides more persuasive Examining model slides	Critical Error 4 Critical Error 5

Alley, Michael, The Craft of Scientific Presentations (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003), 242 pages.

"Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides," Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students, ed. by M. Alley, L. Crowley, J. Donnell and C. Moore (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech, 2007).