IV How to present research

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IV How to present research

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• The three main types of scientific presentation
  are seminars or colloquia(???), oral papers at
  professional meetings, and posters.
• Scientific presentations reflect each
  researchers unique style and personality.

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How to present research

• Research seminars
• Audiovisual aids
• Talks at scientific meetings
• Posters at scientific meetings

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1. Research seminars

• It is crucial for a doctoral student to develop a
  polished hour-long presentation of his or her
  research because the departmental colloquium is a
  standard part of the recruitment procedure for
  hiring, affectionately known as the job
  seminar.
• Introduce your study, explain the findings, and
  summarize the study and implications.

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Advance material

• Provide a brief, informative title for your talk,
  a paragraph-length description of your talk, and
  a short autobiography (name, status and
  affiliation).
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Content and organization

• Seminar presentation can be structured more
  loosely than research reports.
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  will contribute to a more interesting and
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• Think of your presentation as an opportunity to
  tell a story about your research.

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• You will need to provide the necessary background
  to the research, your study subjects, and your
  observational or experimental protocol.
• The most critical parts are your data and the
  conclusions.
• Organize your talk by developing an outline (??)
• Timing is very important.
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Practice

• Giving a practice seminar to colleagues and
  friends
• Practicing will give you confidence in public
  speaking and allow you to work out your timing
  and any confusing areas in advance.
• As the rule of thumb for writing is revise,
  revise, revise, that for speaking is practice,
  practice, practice!

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Style and delivery

• If possible, arrive early to survey the room in
  which your talk will be given.
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• Your talk begins visually before you utter a
  word.
• Dress comfortably and professionally
• Be prepared to stand throughout your talk.
• To develop a style that suits your personality
  and therefore comes naturally.

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• Written sentences are meant to be read and are
  often too complex to be spoken effectively.
• Reading also tends to be lifeless compared with
  naturally spoken words.
• You may wish to write our your talk initially in
  order to help you organize your thoughts.
• Emphasize the important points that you want the
  audience to understand and remember most.

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• Emphasize the important points
• Modulation of your voice and the use of simple
  hand gesture
• Pausing briefly before making an important point
• To give exciting and informative seminar is
  essential.

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Ending the talk

• A forceful and useful way to end a talk is with
  the most important take-home message of your
  seminar.
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The question-and-answer period

• Be patient for the silent time.
• Usually a good idea is to repeat the question
  before answering.
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• A confident speaker may say something like
  while you are formulating possible question in
  your minds, let me say a few words about one of
  the points mentioned in passing.

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• Thanking the audience at the end of the question
  period, indicated either you the time or the lack
  of further question, is positive way to express
  your appreciation for the opportunity to speak.

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2. Audiovisual aids

• Preparing slides fundamentals
• Three basic types of slide photographs, text,
  and data.
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• Rule Never place a slide more than eight lines
  of text or five rows in a table.
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• Rule treat each animation as if it were a
  separate slide when estimating the length of your
  presentation.
• There are some exceptions to this rule, of
  course.

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Preparing slides colors and computers

• Rule Never use red and green as major color
  contrast in slides.
• It is important to pay special attention to
  contrast in colored slides.
• Avoid blue text on a purple background, red on
  orange, and similar combination with little color
  contrast.
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Photographs in PowerPoint

• Rule reduce photograph dimensions to
  approximately 1024 x 768 pixels.
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• Rule insert photographs into PowerPoint instead
  of pasting them in.
• To use the insert picture command rather than
  copying to clipboard and then pasting into
  PowerPoint.

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Using PowerPoint

• Rule show no more slides than the number of
  minutes allotted to your talk.
• Data or text slides may require two to three
  minutes (or more) to explain.
• Too many photographs may be overwhelming and
  therefore defeat the purpose for which they were
  intended.

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Talks at scientific meetings

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• Giving a good 10- to 15- minute talk is a special
  skill. Short talks at professional meetings are
  generally more difficult than long seminar
  presentation for many (perhaps most) speakers.

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Abstracts for talks

• Talk abstracts resemble the summaries and
  abstracts that accompany proposals and written
  research report.
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• Why of the study
• What your paper will be about
• The source of your data, sample sizes and
  periods, and critical methods employed
• Summarize your most important results.

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Content of a talk

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• Conclude with a take-home message a statement of
  the central point made by your study.
• The final slide of a talk usually includes
  acknowledgments to advisors, collaborators, and
  funding sources.
• Close by thanking your audience for their
  attention.

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Practice

• Meeting talks are just as important to practice
  in advance as seminars, especially because of the
  strict time limits imposed.
• You may need to practice a meeting talk more than
  once as you shorten or modify uneven parts.
• Ask your colleagues to be critical and to watch
  for any confusion in your content or annoying
  habits you may be unaware of.

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Posters at scientific meeting

• Posters work best for straightforward results.
• They usually include a panel for the title,
  author, and authors affiliation, and text panels
  that introduce the research, outline the methods,
  and summarize the conclusions.
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• As people arrive to look at your poster, be sure
  that you are standing to the side instead of in
  front of any part of it obscuring their view.
• The more interactive you are with your audience,
  the feedback you are likely to get.
• Crowds attract crowds.

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