Oral presentation at a conference

How to prepare ten minutes at a conference: how many slides, the introduction-methods-results-discussion structure, how to present a graph, rehearsing with a timer and answering difficult questions.

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What’s inside

  1. Ten minutes to tell it
  2. The numbers of the talk
  3. The structure
  4. A weak slide and a good one
  5. How to present a chart
  6. Time allocation
  7. Difficult questions
  8. Rehearsal
  9. Your talk in three sentences

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  1. Click Use this template: it opens in Revela, in your browser. Nothing to install.
  2. Replace the text, images and data with your own. The speaker notes tell you what to say on each slide.
  3. Present it with your phone as a remote, share it with a link or download it as PowerPoint.

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