PhD Conference Paper

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Yeah I think you're right. I've boiled everything down into a PPT, from which I've extracted a few slides from the area that's most suitable for the audience a la Kuso , and am working this up into a 1500-worder based on Pickman's model 's thoughts on timing.

I hope you lot are right. Sounds right

I've done half a dozen conference talks and I usually go for 100 words per min. i do history talks, so some of my slides are simply an image of someone i'm talking about. other times, I'm wanting to give a detailed description of an image like a political cartoon, or explain a table. I usually take about 50 words off the wordcount and ad lib if i need to describe a visual.


general advise,

read it out loud at least 4-5 times. the idea being that you learn the script and you then only have to look down at it to scan sentences. you will probably loose your place occasionally, but that's better than having to look at it constantly.

big enough font and line spacing to read it. few things are worse than seeing someone squinting to read their talk

mark slide change in a coloured pen in the margins


and if you think you might go over time, mark yourself a place where you can make an early cutoff.

 

[Kuso]

Don't put too much info/ stuff on your slides- no need to have the 4 lines you're reading.

Although I was presenting science stuff I was like toggle- sometimes just an image of an inhibitor structure/ synthesis scheme or a (small) table of values with the important figures in bold.

I imagine you'll be presenting with other people- your audience's attention span might have dipped so don't worry about too much detail- you'll lose them even more!

Oh and if you're stuck for slides cuz there isn't a pic of what you're talking about or a structure to show how about a pertinent quote that sparks a bit of your argument

 

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Don't put too much info/ stuff on your slides- no need to have the 4 lines you're reading.

Although I was presenting science stuff I was like toggle- sometimes just an image of an inhibitor structure/ synthesis scheme or a (small) table of values with the important figures in bold.

I imagine you'll be presenting with other people- your audience's attention span might have dipped so don't worry about too much detail- you'll lose them even more!

Oh and if you're stuck for slides cuz there isn't a pic of what you're talking about or a structure to show how about a pertinent quote that sparks a bit of your argument

oh absolutely. I did the quote thing as well. usually beatrice webb (cause of writing about her brother in law and hr romantic interests), always good for a high snark level.

 

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I imagine you'll be presenting with other people- your audience's attention span might have dipped so don't worry about too much detail- you'll lose them even more!

Oh and if you're stuck for slides cuz there isn't a pic of what you're talking about or a structure to show how about a pertinent quote that sparks a bit of your argument

Yeah, I think I'm third out of four, which seems a bit graveyard. But the panel focus is quite topical, I know it'll attract some keen interest.

I do have a couple of good quotes from the two case studies which at appropriate points I thought I'd put up, stand back and let them absorb (thinking "Yeah, so what?")