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Advice on Giving Presentations
Specific to CS 555
- 15-20 minute time limit
- lecture-style
- goal is to teach your fellow students something
Slides
- First slide should always contain your title, your name (and names of your collaborators), and your affiliation
- Have an outline at the beginning and a summary at the end
- “Tell them what you’ll tell them, then tell them, then tell ‘em what you’ve told them”
- Proof-read your slides
- Check consistency in capitalization and font usage
- Keep slides clean and simple
- don’t use too many different fonts or colors
- don’t use distracting backgrounds
Content
- Consider the audience
- What’s the story you want to tell?
- what do you want the audience to walk away knowing?
- Keep in mind your time limit
- only use about 80% of the allotted time (save time for questions)
- Don’t get bogged down in the details
- Start with motivation
- why is this topic important?
- Include helpful figures and illustrations.
- if you use a figure from another source, give attribution (author, paper title, year).
- Include enough background material that your audience will be able to follow your talk.
Delivery
- Practice! Practice! Practice!
- Having notes may be helpful, but don’t write out the entire talk
- Don’t try to memorize your talk
- Speak clearly and slowly
- Face the audience
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