Pt. 1. What Objectives can Lectures Achieve? 1. Evidence of What Lectures Achieve -- Pt. 2. What Factors Affect the Acquisition of Information? 2. Factors Influencing Memory. 3. Factors Affecting Students' Attention. 4. Motivating Students -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Pt. 4. 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 -- Pt. 5. Preparation for the use of Lectures. 20. Thinking the Lecture Through. 21. Writing the Notes.

22. Lecturing for the First Time. 23. Conclusion.