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Objective
Visual learners
Listening learners
Significance
The skill of presenting an engaging and well-structured
seminar often determines our professional reputation
and future success
Robert R.H. Anholt, Dazzle Em With Style
BORING!
It is to:
- Give a feel for what you do
- Interest/stimulate the audience
- Provoke conversation/discussion
Preparation
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to a presentations success:
Audience
What you want:
- Thoroughly understands your subject
- Eager to hear what you have to say
- Courteous and respectful
- Wide-awake, fully caffeinated
WAKE UP!
What you get:
- Dont know you or what you do
- Planning where they have to be next
- Focused on their talk after yours
- Annoying cell phone/beeper person
- Sleepy, non-attentive
< 5%
2) Introduction
- Background (previous work, rationale)
- Objectives (specific aims & hypothesis)
15-25%
25-35%
25-35%
5%
5%
< 5%
Main Body
Ending
- Conclusions, Acknowledgments
- repeat main findings, relate back to hypothesis
- future directions/implications of results
Main Body
Tell them
Repetition is a good thing.
Ending
Motivation
2 minutes to capture the audiences attention
- Why is it important?
- Whats the big deal?
- What makes it interesting/novel?
EXAMPLES!
Your motivation needs to become the
audiences motivation to pay attention
Focus
What is the one thing you want people to remember?
BE SPECIFIC!
12 point, 8 point
12 point, 8 point
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Use spacing to buffer objects
Align lists & figures
Maintain organization
Be consistent with sizin
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Images
Citations
Conclusions
What to avoid:
Intro & Conclusions - lots of full sentences
Methods & Results - all of the gory details
Acknowledgments - reading everyones name
What to use:
Schematics
Images
Graphs
Cartoons
Flow charts
Movies
What to avoid:
Large tables - graph data; compare trends
Too much data on one slide
Overly animated (use sparingly)
Formatting Figures
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5 days in culture
Delivery
Posture
Gestures
Voice
Donts
1) Speed up talking
2) PANIC!