Bret Devereaux

I have speaking notes, but those aren't produced for a student audience; they're rough bullet points to remind me where I am going and to contain key, hard to remember data, etc. They're also rough-cut and I cannot imagine ever handing them out.

They might work as a mnemonic for someone who did attend your lecture?

So this is something I'm not sure is obvious if you don't teach and publish at the college level. Anything I physically hand to students is going to end up on the internet (much to my irritation). That has some implications.

First, there is the concern that my lectures are, well, my lectures. I wrote them, along with my powerpoints. They are part of the value proposition I bring when I sell myself to potential employers as a teacher. You may readily understand why I don't want them on the internet.

Recordings of lectures have similar issues. But the second issue is that if I am going to hand something out, it must be written entirely differently from something that is just for my own use.

Speaking notes for a conference paper look very little like the exact same information packaged for an article. If I am handing these to students, they need to be proofread, carefully formatted, checked for typos, small errors, sentences need to be rewritten for clarity.

And since they are going to end up on the internet (seriously, *everything* you hand out does), they need to be written defensively, with an eye towards uncharitable consumption. That means footnotes, bibliography, defensive wording.

And you may note that what I have described is now a textbook. Because that is exactly what you get when you ask an academic to write up their lecture notes in a form for public consumption. Very literally, two of the textbooks I use are *exactly* that...