19 Tips on Presenting a Scientific Research or Review Paper

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Below are some tips that I have gathered over the years from personal experience:

1. Prepare and control your timing
2. State the purpose of your presentation
3. Don’t read the title, summarize it -> a chance for you to give a gist of the paper or your work.
4. Always have 2 introduction slides -> motivation+ hypothesis
5. Set up a framework for your presentation, don’t just throw information
6. Have a slide title/heading that summarizes the entire slide.
7. It’s okay for the heading to be more than one line, but catchy
8. As informative as possible
9. Break things down so people can follow your flow
10. If there is more than one objective, go thru the M&M, results and discussion for one objective before moving on to the other
11. Discuss as you describe the results
12. Only about 3–4 brief points per slide (as your queues, build on it with your verbal explanation)
13. The purpose of the slide is to cut down the reading, and make the audience listen to you
14. The best form of a presentation is just pictures with zone markers to zoom in attention — engaging