How To Present Your Research Schoonheim 2013
How To Present Your Research Schoonheim 2013
How To Present Your Research Schoonheim 2013
Marloes Schoonheim
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
-Marloes Schoonheim-
Obvious…. Or not?!
• Chose a topic you know and you’re
interested in
• Speak to inform
• Make clear language choices
• Balance information with evidence and
examples
• Get off your notes
Preparation
• Prepare-draft-practice-
deliver…WRONG
• Plan
• Cycle of run-reflect-revise
• Add element of time (85%)
• Check for congruency (audience, goals)
Refining
• Simplicity
Limit your main points
Distinguish main points and subpoints
• Balance
Intro/main part/conclusion
Allocated time is not representative of research!
• Order
Logic?
Presentation arrangement:
follow research paper
• Introduction
1. Previous research
2. Method
3. Findings #a #b
4. Discussion #a #b
5. Implications #a #b
• Conclusion
Research for policy
1. Introduction
2. Recent discoveries
• Findings and discussion #a
• Findings and discussion #b
3. Implications
• #1
• #2
• #3
• Conclusion
Introduction
• Opening device (example, fact)
• Relevance
• Orientation (I’m going to talk about
these main points…)
Conclusion
• Review key points
• Conclusion statement
Practicing
• Don’t restart
• Replicate your mobility
• Speak at volume
• Model speech TED TALKS!
• Impromptu speech
Delivery
• Credible citation
• Pausing
• Vocal variety: speed, pitches, tones
“This workshop is in Geneva”
• Movement
• Jokes & smiling
Delivery: slides
• 1-2 slides per minute of your
presentation
• point form, not complete sentences
• 4-5 points per slide
• Avoid wordiness: use key words and
phrases only
Delivery: slides
• This page contains too many words for a
presentation slide. It is not written in point
form, making it difficult both for your audience
to read and for you to present each point.
Although there are exactly the same number
of points on this slide as the previous slide, it
looks much more complicated. In short, your
audience will spend too much time trying to
read this paragraph instead of listening to
you.
Delivery: slides
• Use at least an 18-point font
• Use different size fonts for main points and
secondary points
– this font is 24-point, the main point font is 28-point,
and the title font is 36-point
• Font not too small