Between Ableism and Developing a Skill Set

The Both-And and But of Reading Papers Verbatim at Conferences

Standing ovation, opera house unknown, May 21, 2012.(http://www.thelmagazine.com).

Last month, the scholarly set on my Twitter feed got into it over the issue of reading papers verbatim as the primary form of public presentation at academic conferences. Some found offensive the idea that anyone would read from their paper with their head bent down the whole time. “Wait…