THE ORGANISATION OF A LECTURE WILL BE CLEARER IF THE POINTS ARE WRI...

5. The organisation of a lecture will be clearer if the points are written on the board immediately after being

mentioned. Lecturers who are not confident of their ability on the blackboard are tempted to neglect it. One way

over this difficulty is to use an overhead projector which may show either normal handwriting done at the time, or

prepared acetate sheets which may be progressively displayed as the lecture develops.

Alternatively, a handout containing the main heading well-spaced, with blanks in between for the students to add

supplementary detail, is useful; and since handouts may be passed on to absentees, they are particularly valuable

at the beginning of a course or at other times when it is important to convey the organisation of subject matter.

Such displays of lecture organisation (using the blackboard, overhead projector, handouts, or possibly over

methods such as flannel graphs and charts) play a particularly important part in aiding comprehension when a

flow diagram or other complex form is used because the relations between possibly abstract ideas can be pointed

out visually.

In brief, we can say information must be organised in the students’ mind and not just in the lecturer's.

For questions 76-80, decide which of the notes below (A-H) best sums up each of the five

Paragraphs. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.