Guide for first presentation

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Guide for first presentation

• James Raymond Vreeland
• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
• INAF 100-14

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Time limits

• Respect them
• 5 minutes tops
• 9 minutes!!!

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Slides

• Minimize words
• Audience-focus Presenter
• Slides punctuate

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Your slides should look more like the one before
this slide, not this one because this is a good
example of a bad slide. Nest-ce pas?

• You should use the absolute minimum number of
  words on a slide to prompt you and your audience
• You dont want your audience to be focused on
  your slides they should be focused on you -
  not reading your slides. So wordy slides should
  be avoided
• The slide should just highlight what you are
  talking about because if you put a lot of words
  you will have a tendency to read to your audience
  and meantime your audience wont be sure what
  they should be focusing on. So many presentations
  are ruined before they start because of crappy
  slides like this one. So dont make any slides
  like this or else! Got it?

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Presentation matters

• Dress for the part
• Step it up a notch (just a notch not too much)
• Make slides interesting
• Not with words
• Use animation (bullets that appear)
• Figures
• Tables
• Dont get carried away
• Dont overdress your slides or yourself

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Example figure
Audience attention
Number of words on a slide
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Drama

• Pose questions
• gtPauselt
• Highly effective
• The dramatic pause
• Engage the audience

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Substance

• Begin with your question
• Introduce the debate
• Offer your answer
• Present your methodology
• Evidence
• Conclude Your question your answer

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Take-home point

• Begin and end with a single point
• The 1 point that your audience should remember

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Thank youWE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!
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Take-aways

• Respect time limits
• Minimalist slides
• Use drama
• Pose questions
• Animation
• End with a take-away