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