Part One: What Objectives Can Lectures Achieve?.

1. Evidence of What Lectures Achieve.

Part Two: What Factors Affect the Acquisition of Information?.

2. Factors Influencing Memory.

3. Factors Affecting Students' Attention.

4. Motivating Students.

Part Three: What Lecture Techniques Apply These Factors Most Effectively?.

5. Lecture Organization.

6. Making a Point.

7. Reasons and Explanations.

8. Aids to Comprehending a Point.

9. Note Taking in Lectures.

10. The Purpose, Preparation, and Use of Handouts.

11. Lecture Styles.

12. Ways of Obtaining Feedback.

13. Evaluation of Lectures.

14. Overcoming Common Difficulties.

15. Lectures for the Promotion of Thought.

16. Lectures to Teach Attitudes.

Part Four: Alternatives When Lecturing Is Inadequate.

17. The Lecture Method Alone Is Rarely Adequate.

18. Teaching Methods to Use with Lectures.

19. Some Combinations of Teaching Methods.

Part Five: Preparation for the Use of Lectures.

20. Thinking the Lecture Through.

21. Writing the Notes.

22. Lecturing for the First Time.

23. Conclusion.