Presenting an article

Pre-presentation work

Choose an article carefully.

You have to like it and think that your colleagues can learn from it.

Surveys or vague article are unlikely to be good articles to present.

Be prepared to discard an article after you have read it (you may

decide that it will not make a good presentation).

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How do you prepare for a presentation?

http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art1.html

http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/presentationskills.htm

http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/how-to-make-an-
effective-powerpoint-presentation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwpi1Lm6dFo

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Pre-presentation work

Read and understand the article.

The article will have one main point

Identify the main point, and put it at the centre of your

presentation.

You are not telling a joke, with the punchline at the end.

You want your audience to remember your points

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• what the paper is about

• why it is important that the reader knows it
• what results are described in the paper
• what other people have said/thought/found
• why do these results hold (INTUITION)
• did you like/dislike the paper (but do not make it personal)

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How do you prepare for a presentation?

The Three Presentation Essentials

- Use visual aids where you can

- Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
- The audience will only remember three messages

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Use visual aids where you can
Most animations are distracting
Use pictures/photographs sparingly (it is an academic paper you
are presenting)
Use fancy templates even more sparingly.
Simple consistent font is best (and use a dark colour font on
white or very light background)

- Use visual aids where you can

- Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
- The audience will only remember three messages
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Use visual aids where you can
A good pace is 30-40 slides per hour.
Links
Good presentation (but too long):
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ossqg-apZHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEjkwd77Gq0
Ppt:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wmvtm3p122bcdob/Good%20pres
entation%20With%20Notes.pps?dl=0
Bad presentation:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h2mvxlocyy56gbx/Bad%20present
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Good presentation checklist questions.

•The presenter clarified the structure of their talk at

the outset,
• so that the audience immediately formed a sense of what to
expect
• so that it would be clear at each stage why a certain slide
would appear.

•The presenter placing the paper(s) within the context

of the existing literature or of the relevant policy
problem
• without simply listing the short abstract of a handful of
other papers

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•The presenter did justice to the paper(s),

• indicating what the problem investigated by the paper(s) was
• explained well why the paper(s) deserves a place in the
economics literature
• explained well any solution/novelty/questions in the paper(s)
• The audience could see the "point" of the paper(s)

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• The presenter conveyed well their reason for choosing

the paper
• It was clear whether it was a paper that the presenter liked or
not,
• And in either case, why.

• The presentation itself made good use of the

technology
• Slides were legible (not too packed, not irrelevant)
• The presenter was not simply reading out the slides loud.
• If a pointer was used it was used appropriately
• The presenter was in control of the software and the hardware

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•The powerpoint slides added value

• The audience had the opportunity to shift their attention from
the slide to the speaker and follow/anticipate/ go back to what
the speaker was saying as appropriate.
•The presenter kept well their time
• The presentation finished when it was meant to.
• There was a conclusion, not just a repetition of the
introduction.

•The presenter interested the audience

• There were good questions, and the presenter answered them
appropriately.
•The assessor learnt something new and interesting
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Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse

Video yourself (timing)

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The Three Presentation Essentials

- Use visual aids where you can

- Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
- The audience will only remember three messages

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How much in each slide?

Not too much;

How many slides (30-40 slides per hour)

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