Giving Effective Feedback

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Giving Effective Feedback
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• Effective feedback is designed to
• help the speaker improve.

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Good Feedback

• Immediate

• Constructive

• Personal opinion

• Builds confidence

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The evaluator benefits too

• Listening skills
• Analytical skills
• Observes and learns from effective presentations
• Enhances personal communication skills

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How?

• Highlight good points
• Show you are interested
• Talk to speaker in advance
• Personalise your language
• Be specific
• Evaluate the talk, not the person

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• Build confidence, encourage
• Be honest and sincere
• Be constructive
• Dont whitewash

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Sandwich approach

• Start with speakers strong points
• Focus on 1-2 points for improvements
• Finish on upbeat note, summarising strong points

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A very, very basic introduction to LaTeX
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Basic structure of a document

• \documentclass12ptarticle
• \begindocument
• \enddocument

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Title and Author

• \titleMy test document
• \authorHumpty Dumpty
• \begindocument
• \maketitle

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Sectioning

•   The sectioning commands available depend on the
  document class. Important ones are
•     \section   \subsection
•    \subsubsection
•    \chapter

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Plain text

• Plain English text needs few LaTeX commands.  
• LaTeX does the formatting.
•  Several blanks are treated like one.
• Text is usually set left and right aligned.
• An empty line starts a new paragraph.

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Special characters

•     and     group things in LaTeX     
          starts a LaTeX comment      
           starts or ends maths mode
• starts or ends maths display
  mode      \          starts a LaTeX command
• To type a special character, precede it with a \
• e.g. \ prints and \ prints .

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Changing Fonts

•    LaTeX supports different fonts, e.g. bold
  face, italics, etc.
• Bold \bf hello  appears as hello.
• italics      \it hello   appears as hello .
• underline  \underline hello appears as
  hello. 

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Environments

• LaTeX supports different environments
• \begin....
• \end...    

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Itemizing

• \beginitemize     \item bread     \item
  butter
• \enditemize                       
•   appears as
• bread
• butter

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Enumerating

• \beginenumerate     \item bread     \item
  butter
• \endenumerate    
•               appears as  
• bread
• butter

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Description Environment

• \begindescription     \itembread  (multi
  grain)     \itembutter  (unsalted)
• \enddescription            
•        appears as
• bread   (multi grain)
• butter  (unsalted)

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Making Tables

• \begintabular l l c  r     bread 1 loafs
  500 g \2.50 \\     chocolate 2 bars 100
  g each total \ 2.40 \\ \endtabular  
  appears as
• bread 1 loaf 500 g
  2.50
• chocolate 2 bars 100 g each total 2.40

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Borders

• If two columns are separated with a
• vertical bar there will be a vertical
• line between these columns in the
• table.

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Typing Mathematics

•    Mathematics is typed in a special mode, the
  maths mode.
•     .....   or \ .... \    
•     For example, the intersection
• A \cap B of the sets A and B.

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Displaying Mathematics

•    The displayed maths mode is enclosed in
•    .... or \ ... \  
•               Displayed mathematics is set
  centred on a line by itself.

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Mathematical Symbols

• There are many. See handout.
• e.g. \alpha, \beta Greek alphabet
• \sum, \product
• \rightarrow
• and many more

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New Environments

• The following definition before
• \begindocument defines an
• environment for theorems
• \newtheoremtheoremTheoremsection
•  

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Cross Referencing

• \beginequation\labeleqsum
•     x y z
• \endequation  
• By Equation (\refeqsum) we can see
• that....
•                 

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•                         appears as  
•   x y z                             (11)
• By Equation (11) we can see that

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More Cross Referencing

• \begintheorem\labelMyTheorem
• A fabulous result.
• \endtheorem
• By Theorem\refMyTheorem

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• Theorem 7.1
• A fabulous result.
• By Theorem 7.1

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Labelling other Environments

• You can also label other
• environments, e.g. sections.
• When using cross referencing,
• make sure you run LaTeX at least
• twice.

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