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How to give a good colloquium, by John E. McCarthy
CMS Notes, v.31, no. 5, Sept. 1999
How to give a good 20-minute math talk, by William T. Ross
2008 blog post
On speaking, by Paul Halmos
Part of "Paul Halmos In His Own Words," Notices of the AMS, v.54(no.9), Oct. 2007: Excerpt from How to talk mathematics, Notices of the AMS, 21 (1974), 155-158
How to give a good talk, by Joseph A. Gallian
Math Horizons, April 1998
Advice on giving a good PowerPoint presentation, by Joseph A. Gallian
Math Horizons
Proving yourself: how to develop an interview lecture, by John Swallow
Notices of the AMS, v.56 (no. 8) Sept. 2009, pp. 948-951