Tham khảo tài liệu 'the craft of scientific presentations - m alley (springer 2003) episode 11', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Critical Error 10 Losing Composure On Monday and Wednesday my mother was nervous and agitated from the time she got up. At five o clock on these days she lectured. After lunch she shut herself into her study in the Quai de Béthune prepared the lesson and wrote the heads of chapters of her lecture on a piece of white paper. Towards half-past four she would go to the laboratory and isolate herself in a little rest room. She was tense anxious unapproachable. Marie had been teaching for twenty-five years yet every time she had to appear in the little amphitheater before twenty or thirty pupils who rose in unison at her entrance she unquestionably had stage fright. 1 Eve Curie To watch a presenter lose composure is a painful experience. In some cases the presenter has so much stage fright that he or she loses composure before the presentation even begins. For instance a graduate student of one my colleagues lost composure at a conference recently. This graduate student who had to present two papers back to back was so nervous that he simply read the papers rather than look the audience members in the eyes and speak to them about what he knew. Moreover he read so quickly that he finished both papers in less than the time that was allotted for just one. Needless to say no one in the audience learned anything from the presentations. In other cases the loss of composure arises during the presentation because something unexpected occurs. More often than not these cases occur during questioning. A loss of composure during the question period often follows a certain sequence. A question trips up a speaker and the speaker loses confidence. Some mem 194 Delivery You the Room and the Audience 195 bers in the audience sense a flaw in the work and ask more questions on the same point. The speaker loses even more confidence and the questions become more biting. Controlling Nervousness Just the act of speaking before an audience generates much nervous energy for presenters. There is
