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Title: Giving%20Conference%20Presentations


1
Giving Conference Presentations
  • Kevin Eric DePew
  • ODU English

2
Presentation Overview
  • Why Present?
  • The Presentation Texts
  • Giving the Presentation
  • Designing the Presentation

3
Why Present?
  • Opportunity to go to Conferences
  • exposure to current scholarship
  • meet new people
  • start collaborations
  • Develop professional identity
  • Get feedback

4
Presentation Texts
  • The call for papers (CFP)
  • Your response to the CFP
  • The conference paper
  • Handouts (optional)
  • PowerPoint (optional)

5
The Conference Paper
  • 20 minutes
  • 8 pages, double-spaced 8 - 15 slides
  • Genre
  • Problem purpose of presentation
  • Frame connection to conversation
  • Response solution to problem, examples
  • Consider audience purpose
  • Save some details for QA

6
Roundtable
  • A position statement made to prompt discussion
  • Often for practical issues
  • Focus on problem and response
  • Include academic conversation when necessary

7
Handouts
  • Gives your audience an artifact of your
    presentation can include
  • your contact information
  • your abstract
  • references
  • Illustrations or examples
  • suggestions
  • space for notes
  • Use CRAP for design

8
PowerPoint Presentation
  • Helps you to present extemporaneously, but
    maintain focus
  • Organization
  • structured ? loose
  • Effect
  • orientation ? distraction
  • More on PPT later

9
Giving Presentations
  • Conference Presentation Etiquette
  • Reading vs. Speaking
  • The Physical Presentation

10
Presentation Etiquette
  • DO NOT
  • exceed your time limit
  • give a different paper
  • be unorganized
  • DO
  • show confidence in your work
  • know your material
  • be respectful

11
Reading vs. Speaking
  • Know the culture
  • Reading
  • A helps to keep you organized, on-task
  • D often prevents eye contact, loss of ethos
  • Speaking
  • A demonstrates knowledge in material
  • D can appear unorganized

12
Physical Presentation
  • Pay attention to your location especially if
    using a screen for PPT
  • Make eye contact
  • Do not talk to the screen or paper point to text
    when appropriate
  • If using PPT do not read slides, but use them to
    organize your talk

13
Designing Slideshows
  • The way that each slide looks affects how the
    audience receives information
  • Therefore, pay attention to
  • Fonts
  • Color
  • Special Effects
  • Images
  • Repetition

14
Communicate Visually
15
Appropriateness
  • Use appropriate backgrounds, images, and special
    effects for your presentation
  • Discuss one issue per slide
  • Use as little text as possible
  • long passages
  • do not place entire quote on slides
  • excerpt, verbalize, or place in handout

16
Questions
  • Your questions are welcomed and encouraged
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