April 23rd

Yesterday's LLA lecture was done separately from the stream 2 students unlike the last one, which made the whole lecture more interactive. Rab showed us how to make our arguments stronger and to perform well in presentations. In enforcing our arguments, he mentioned a number of types of evidence that we could use, including statistics, examples, expert opinions and so on. Each type of evidence was explained along with a concrete example or an actual demonstration of it which made me easy to understand them better. Moreover, Rab gave a few points of how to make our presentations more successful. Everything turned out to be useful for me since I didn't really get a chance to give any speeches or presentations when I was in a Japanese high school. 

Above all, Rab's presentation skills were amazing. I sometimes see him as the Scottish version of Steve Jobs (including his huge obsession with Mac computers). Haha!