Talking the TalkTalking the TalkTips on presentation style & contentTips on presentation style & content

Jodie Baird

Tips for Your Talk: Tips for Your Talk: PresentationPresentation

Write it out in advanceWrite it out in advancePractice your talk out loud with a friendPractice your talk out loud with a friendTime your talkTime your talkTalk to the audience, not the computerTalk to the audience, not the computerBe sure to Be sure to endend the talk (“thank you”) the talk (“thank you”)

Tips for Your Talk: Tips for Your Talk: ContentContent

Start with the big pictureStart with the big picture What is your question?What is your question? Why is it interesting?Why is it interesting?

Discuss your approachDiscuss your approach Did you examine the literature?Did you examine the literature? Did you do a study?Did you do a study?

Tell what you learnedTell what you learned How does your research speak to the question?How does your research speak to the question? What new questions arise from your research?What new questions arise from your research?

Tips for Your SlidesTips for Your Slides

DoDo Use sans serif fontUse sans serif font Use large (24+ pt) fontUse large (24+ pt) font Use only a few slidesUse only a few slides Keep slides simpleKeep slides simple

Don’tDon’t Use Use multiple multiple fontsfonts Use sound effects or Use sound effects or

fly-insfly-ins USE ALL CAPSUSE ALL CAPS Crowd your slides with Crowd your slides with

lots and lots of lots and lots of extraneous, wordy extraneous, wordy information that is information that is difficult to read quicklydifficult to read quickly

Do all things have an essence? sample of a wordy slide

Natural Kinds refer to categories that occur in nature, such as animals, minerals, plants

Artifacts refer to objects created by humans, such as vehicles, furniture, toys

Natural kinds have essential properties that are common across category members (e.g., all mammals breathe air); artifacts typically do not (e.g., chairs can be wood, metal, plastic…they can be large, small, etc.)

Artifacts are typically defined by their function rather than by an essence

Do all things have an essence? sample of a simple slide

Natural Kinds = categories that occur in nature

Artifacts = objects created by humans

Natural kinds have essences; artifacts do not

Artifacts are defined by function rather by essence