Presentation skills

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2. • Aims of Scientific Presentation
• Scientific Presentation Skills
• Planning a presentation
• Making oral presentation
• Handling questions
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Aims of Scientific Presentation
A good presentation …
• Audience can understand your work, be convinced
and interested in your work, and inspired!
• Content are well organized, clear, to the point

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Aims of Scientific Presentation
A bad presentation …
• Audience won’t see your work is great
• Slides are neither understandable nor easy to see
• Not good impression on audience

5. Scientific Presentation Skills
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Workflow of Presentation
Make
presentation
Handle
questions
Plan
presentation

6. Scientific Presentation Skills
Planning a presentation
• Thinking about the aim
• Developing presentation structure
• Preparing presentation slides
Making oral presentation
• Conducting presentation
Handling questions
• Answering questions
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7. Planning a Presentation
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Before preparing contents/slides of presentation,
always think about what is the aim of your
presentation
Thinking about the aim first

8. • Details
• Include enough detail to make presentation understandable
• Not including so much details which fails to fit within the
time assigned
Planning a Presentation
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9. • What do I want the audience to do after listening to my
presentation?
• Comments / advice / suggestions on my presentation.
• Who is the AUDIENCE?
• What are the BENEFITS to the audience of my presentation?
• Where will the presentation take place? Equipment do you need like
laptop, data storage, whiteboard, projector, laser pointer, etc?
• How long will be my speech?
Planning a Presentation
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Ask yourself

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Developing presentation structure
Planning a Presentation
• What to say
• In what order

11. • Title
• Outline
• Introduction/background
• Aim and objectives
• Details
• Approach
• Results
• Conclusions
• Future work
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Developing presentation structure
Planning a Presentation

12. • Convey key information
• Contain appropriate level of details
• Be clear, readable and understandable
• Be interesting and avoid boring
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Principles of slide design
Planning a Presentation
Preparing presentation slides

13. • Layout
 Try to use a consistent layout on all (or most) of your slides
to make your presentations easier to understand
 Placing heading at the same position
 Use bullets and font sizes in a consistent way
 Placing figures.
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Guidelines for making slides – (1)
Planning a Presentation

14. • Font size
 Be noted that you are close to the projector while your
audience is far from the screen - make sure the audience
sitting at the rear can read clearly
 Font should never be smaller than 18 points; If the font size
has reached less than 18 point.
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Guidelines for making slides – (2)
Planning a Presentation

15. • Use headings
 Each slide has a short heading showing to which part of the
presentation it belongs
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Guidelines for making slides – (3)
Planning a Presentation

16. • Use short expressions
 Do not put all the text onto the slides
 Use short expressions rather than sentences, but not be
cryptic
 Always explain shortened phrases on the slides
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Guidelines for making slides – (4)
Planning a Presentation

17. • Highlight/emphasis
 Highlight important words or concepts using color, boldface
or underlining
 Help audience to grasp the meaning quickly
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Guidelines for making slides – (5)
Planning a Presentation

18. • Use bullets well organized
 Organize the levels of
 Hierarchy do you think
– You need to express
 Your point
 Use indentation and
 Keep consistent across all slide
– Decrease font size
 With nested level of list
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Guidelines for making slides – (6)
Planning a Presentation

19. • Know slide boundaries
 Audience cannot read text that runs off the side of the
slides
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Guidelines for making slides – (7)
Planning a Presentation

20. • Color and contracts guidelines.
 White background, black text is clearest
 Make sure to not use light-on-white or white-on-light
 Do not using glaring color.
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Guidelines for making slides – (8)
Planning a Presentation

21. You can hardly read

22. You can hardly read

23. • Numbering slides
 Put a small slide number in the lower right hand corner of
each slide
 The number should be small and sufficiently close to the
edge.
 Any one asking questions after your presentation can refer
to the slide number in the question
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Guidelines for making slides – (9)
Planning a Presentation

24. • Use visuals
 Graphs, charts, maps, drawings, models,
 Images, photos, video, films, etc
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earth
moon orbit`s
earth
last (third)quarter
gibbous moon
full moon
gibbous moon
first quarter
crescent
new moon
crescent
waning Moon
waxing Moon
SUN
Guidelines for making slides – (10)
Planning a Presentation

25. • Equations
– If you don’t need them, do not use them.
– If you do need them, keep it simple. Do not get into too much details
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Guidelines for making slides – (11)
Planning a Presentation

26. • Notes/manuscripts
 Write down what you are going to say will
– help practicing
– Avoid losing points
 Mainly used for practicing before presentation rather than
during presentation
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Guidelines for making slides – (12)
Planning a Presentation

27. • A typical presentation has three parts
• The beginning (Introduction)
• The middle (body)
• The end (conclusion)
Making Oral Presentation
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Structuring your presentation – (1)

28. • The Beginning
• Greet audience
• Introduce yourself
Making Oral Presentation
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Structuring your presentation – (2)

29. • The Beginning
• Give title and introduce subject
• Give your objectives (purpose, aim, goal)
• Announce your outline.
Making Oral Presentation
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Structuring your presentation – (3)

30. • The Middle
• Sequencing your ideas
• Keeping audience’s attention.
• Link your ideas.
Making Oral Presentation
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Structuring your presentation – (4)

31. • The End
• Brief summary of what you have talked
• A short conclusion
• Thanks to audience for listening
• A invitation to ask questions.
Making Oral Presentation
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Structuring your presentation – (5)

32. • Your attitude
 If you are not excited, you cannot expect audience to be.
 Do not talk down to audience
 Practice makes perfect
Making Oral Presentation
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Guideline for conducting presentation – (1)

33. • Talk to the audience and avoid dead man talking
 Avoid talking to the floor, to the wall or to the screen
 Avoid hiding behind the podium
 Avoid back to the audience
 Avoid staring at anyone
 Avoid hand/face motionless
Making Oral Presentation
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Guideline for conducting presentation – (3)

34. • Show the slides properly
 Avoid showing a slide for just one or two second before
going on to the next slide
Making Oral Presentation
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Guideline for conducting presentation – (4)

35. • Explain things
 Do not expect the audience to find out things for themselves
by reading the slide.
 Avoid reading word by word from slides.
 Give more explanations on visuals like graphs, tables, etc
Making Oral Presentation
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Guideline for conducting presentation – (5)

36. • Body language
 Eye contact, facial expressions, posture, movements,
gestures.
Making Oral Presentation
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Guideline for conducting presentation – (6)

37. • Keep an eye on time
 Use your allocated time well.
Making Oral Presentation
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Guideline for conducting presentation – (7)
• Monitor the tempo
 Do not talk too fast or too slow
 Vary temp or voice to emphasize certain things

38. Handling Questions
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Answering questions
• Be as clear as possible in your replies
• Clarify the question if necessary
• Do not try to avoid answering the question
• Preparing for the defence

39. QUESTIONS PLEASE