Excellent point. Perhaps slightly tangential, but my advisor recently mentioned (and I agree with him) that one's presentation (spoken and written) often serves as the ultimate means of differentiation between a "good" idea and a "bad" one.
In an academic context (CS), this means that grants/papers/proposals often succeed more on the merits of the presenter (or writer) than the inherent value within an idea itself. After all, much of CS research is incremental improvements to existing work. Such papers may need a nice spin.
So perhaps undergrad CS majors (or at least, those who are grad school bound) should eschew higher level electives for a class in theatre or rhetoric...
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Excellent point. Perhaps slightly tangential, but my advisor recently mentioned (and I agree with him) that one's presentation (spoken and written) often serves as the ultimate means of differentiation between a "good" idea and a "bad" one.
In an academic context (CS), this means that grants/papers/proposals often succeed more on the merits of the presenter (or writer) than the inherent value within an idea itself. After all, much of CS research is incremental improvements to existing work. Such papers may need a nice spin.
So perhaps undergrad CS majors (or at least, those who are grad school bound) should eschew higher level electives for a class in theatre or rhetoric...