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This concise guide helps you enhance your presentation skills by walking you through the necessary steps in preparing, delivering, and self-reflecting on a presentation. This quick read also identifies possible embarrassing moments on the stage and provides you with particularly practical and witty tips, helping you better prepare for the presentation and overcome the stage fright by anticipating different scenarios.
Highlights include crafting your message (pp. 23-34), practising your delivery (pp. 49-56), delivering your presentation (pp. 57-64), and managing the response (pp. 65-72).
Focusing on academic presentation contexts, the book will guide you how to prepare for paper and poster presentations in seminars and conferences by articulating results, findings, and conclusions accurately and concisely. Supplemented with useful phrases you can use during your presentation and suggestions on how to begin a presentation, you will learn how to produce and deliver memorable presentations.
Highlights include "Visual elements and fonts" (pp. 57-74), "Ten ways to begin a presentation" (pp. 75-88), "Posters" (pp. 217-228), and "Useful phrases" (pp. 249-273).
This book offers the first comprehensive guide to poster presentation at academic, scientific and professional conferences. Each chapter explores different factors that impact upon how posters function, and how they fit within today’s conference practices, as well as provides guidance on how to address compilation and presentation issues with the poster medium.
Highlights include "Preparation and planning" (pp. 31-44), "Poster Design and the Viewer Perspective" (pp. 61-78), and "Delivering Your Poster Presentation" (pp. 123-130).
Every graduate student, postdoc and scientist knows that images and illustrations can make or break their lecture, poster presentation, and journal or book article. Graphics software and laser printers have placed professional-quality graphics within the reach of everyone. But in the end, whether your audience sees clear, understandable images or not depends on whether you followed the principles presented here. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of visual presentations.
Highlights include "Graphs and Software" (Ch. 6), "Posters" (Ch. 9), and "Using a Computer" (Ch.11).
Communicate Science Papers, Presentations, and Posters Effectively is a guidebook on science writing and communication that professors, students, and professionals in the STEM fields can use in a practical way. This book advocates a clear and concise writing and presenting style, enabling users to concentrate on content. The text is useful to both native and non-native English speakers. The book includes chapters on the publishing industry (discussing bibliometrics, h-indexes, and citations), plagiarism, and how to report data properly.
Highlights include "Reporting Data" (Ch. 3), "Graphs" (Ch. 4), "Tables" (Ch. 5), "Presentations They Will Remember (Ch. 7), and "Posters That Captivate" (Ch. 8).
Designing Science Presentations guides researchers and graduate students of virtually any discipline in the creation of compelling science communication. Most scientists never receive formal training in the creation, delivery, and evaluation of such material, yet it is essential for publishing in high-quality journals, soliciting funding, attracting lab personnel, and advancing a career. This clear, readable volume fills that gap and provides visually intensive guidance at every step―from the construction of original figures to the presentation and delivery of those figures in papers, slideshows, posters, and websites. It provides pragmatic advice on the preparation and delivery of exceptional scientific presentations; demonstrates hundreds of visually striking presentation techniques, giving readers inspiration for creating their own; and is structured so that readers can easily find answers to particular questions.
Highlights include "Scientists as Designers" (Ch. 1), "Twenty-One Characteristics Shared by Exceptional Presenters" (Ch. 3), "The Structure of Slide Presentation" (Ch. 16), "Slide Layout" (Ch. 18), and "Delivering a Slide Presentation" (Ch. 20).