水蓝MM,我输入zipcode以后发现在我们这附近有上百个toastmaster club. 这些club是都有固定主题的还是什么话题都说? 如果到处都差不多,我就找个近点的去了.

另外主页上介绍每次聚会大概一个小时,那有没有足够的机会给每个人? 多谢啊~~~

I also go to Toastmaster club every week. It helps in polishing public speaking skills.

Hanging out with Americans also help a lot. I use to work mainly with Korean and Indian labmates when I was in the gradaute school and didn't feel much improvement in terms of speaking. I later worked on projects with Americans and hanged out with them more. It made a big difference in my speaking which helped a lot in my job interview later on.

看看这个，至少适用于我们专业：http://www.mla.org/style

For an authoritative explanation of MLA style, see the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (for high school and undergraduate college students) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (for graduate students, scholars, and professional writers). Please also see frequently asked questions about MLA style.

The style recommended by the association for preparing scholarly manuscripts and student research papers concerns itself with the mechanics of writing, such as punctuation, quotation, and documentation of sources. MLA style has been widely adopted by schools, academic departments, and instructors for nearly half a century.

MLA guidelines are also currently used by over 125 scholarly and literary journals, newsletters, and magazines with circulations over one thousand; by hundreds of smaller periodicals; and by many university and commercial presses. MLA style is commonly followed not only in the United States but in Canada and other countries as well; Japanese translations of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers appeared in 1980, 1984, and 1988, and a Chinese translation was published in 1990.