The key to a successful defense is not answering the questions they ask you, but figuring out how to give them the answers you have prepared, no matter what questions they ask.
The same, I understand now, is true of television or radio interviews. If they aren’t soliciting the answers you’ve rehearsed, you have to find a way to solicit the questions you want them to ask. —James M. Lang —My Four Minutes (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Interesting reflection by a professor who was interviewed on Fox’s Morning News. Note that the interviewer scanned a list of questions her producer had prepared for her, and then basically winged the interview.
Similar:
I Don’t Know Why Everyone’s in Denial About College Students Who Can’t Do the Reading
How the printing press changed “you”: when reading changed, so did writing
Traces of Scribes
My Shakespeare students are off peer reviewing their term paper rough drafts. I’m official...
It's such a privilege to introduce these young people to Shakespeare's body of work.
In MLA Style, use the ellipsis only to mark an omission from the middle of a quotation.