As a GENERAL rule, academics are the worst,

oh really ? this could provoke me; I'll read on.....

and the more learned the
professor the more dire it gets.

Now there I agree with you! And the more prestigous the institution, the worse
it often becomes because of the emphasis on research rather than communication.


Classroom lecture techniques of scrawling on a whiteboard or on an OHP
transparency almost always lead to illegible and unintelligible results.

that's why that sort of thing went out - in most/many places - decades ago. I
have to admit that presentations at RMS meetings have improved vastly in recent
years, largely due to Powerpoint - though poor Powerpoint presentations can be
incredibly uninformative.

Julian Mayes, West Molesey, Surrey (and Univ of Surrey Roehampton).