In this live chat we want to strip the whole process back to basics and focus on the speech itself and ask: how can you make your talk persuasive, interesting and entertaining in different academic settings?
Some of the first outpourings of my great and noble profession were the crime pamphlets that gripped the nation in the late 16th century, and Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival continued with an entertaining talk by the academic Nandini Das.
Ms. Campagnol said the book, designed to be both academic and entertaining, drew on hundreds of dusty volumes documenting convent inspections that were kept in state and church archives.
"It was a very entertaining intellectual exercise for academics like myself," said Ms. Willis, who spent hours in the 61st Street town house in the summer of 1996.
It is entertaining but the non-academic reader has no idea who most of these writers are, and Eagleton's comments are too perfunctory to illuminate their thought or to encourage trust in his judgments upon them.
He leaves the entertaining to the entertainers.
Verlaine and his pack of angel hunters are far more entertaining and energetic than the tweedy academics of "Angelology," who seemed intent on researching the Nephilim to death.
Unlike a pedestrian English class exercise that assigns students five-paragraph essays, the script writing conveyed academic skills in a more entertaining way.
"Blockbusters" builds on her already impressive academic resume to create an accessible and entertaining book — let's see if it sells enough copies to be considered a mass media success.
