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If you are creating a presentation, here are some recommendations:
If you are creating a presentation, here are some recommendations:


My go-to source for slides is Michael Alley’s work in the area.  
The first step is to make sure you tell a good story. Often the trick, when faced with tight time bounds, is to *highlight* the best results while pointing to the paper for details. Your goal isn't to retell the whole paper but to convince the viewer that they need to go read the paper.


I recommend that presentations use Sentence Headlines, as recommended by Michael Ally in The Craft of Scientific Presentations:
My go-to source for slides is Michael Ally’s work in the area: The Craft of Scientific Presentations:


* http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/speaking.html
* http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/speaking.html
   
   
Each headline should explain the point of the slide.  If you use sentence headlines, your slides will tell the story themselves.
Each headline should explain the point of the slide.  If you use sentence headlines, your slides will tell the story themselves.

Revision as of 07:51, 20 April 2018

If you are creating a presentation, here are some recommendations:

The first step is to make sure you tell a good story. Often the trick, when faced with tight time bounds, is to *highlight* the best results while pointing to the paper for details. Your goal isn't to retell the whole paper but to convince the viewer that they need to go read the paper.

My go-to source for slides is Michael Ally’s work in the area: The Craft of Scientific Presentations:

Each headline should explain the point of the slide. If you use sentence headlines, your slides will tell the story themselves.