The team space in the course website included detailed guidelines for the consecutive working stages: individual learning of the topic, beginning to work, focusing on the team subtopic, preparing a draft presentation, revising the presentation, presenting to the TA and getting feedback, and presenting and discussing at the miniconference.
When his staff sent him a draft presentation last December, pointing out that Shell had a legal obligation to disclose the true reserves position, he e-mailed one of them saying: "This is absolute dynamite, not at all what I expected and needs to be destroyed".
Kevin Drum of Mother Jones is surprised at the hype the presentation has attracted, considering that it's not a piece of legislation, or even proposed legislation, or even the actual report by the deficit commission, but rather a draft presentation by "two guys in a room" (co-chairs former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Erskine Bowles).
So the city's myriad foreign-policy experts are busy drafting presentations and memos advising the next president on how far to swing back towards action.
They have been drafting presentations on sophisticated solutions that they are calling upon the leaders of the industrialized world to adopt, on behalf of the world's children.
The early verdict from courtroom spectators was that the prosecution scored points with a tightly drafted presentation that addressed the greatest weaknesses in its case during the previous trial.
Gathering in dining halls and dorm rooms, sometimes long after midnight, they study the texts, draft formal presentations, and hatch intrigues.
The teams had 12 hours to run the numbers and draft their presentations, including slide shows.
Computerised methods were considered the most efficacious mode of delivering decision support, and the draft risk presentations were considered useful for conveying short-term outcome probabilities to patients/relatives.
She said he recently helped her draft a presentation to Wall Street analysts, a task few investment bankers perform.
The bank's ratings-advisory team helped Parmalat draft a presentation to Standard & Poor's, a rating agency, in late November, to answer concerns about suspected liquidity problems.
