Oral presentations give you the opportunity to share complex information with an audience simply and clearly. By the end of the presentation your audience should understand the purpose of your work (the So What question), as well as the research that led you from your question to your conclusion.
Read this guide from Trent University for an overview of preparing and delivering oral presentations.
When you're presenting orally, it can be helpful to have visual aids. This allows your audience to absorb information in multiple ways, and allows you to highlight main points while providing further detail or broader discussion.
Don't like
Do like
Create your presentation around the following characteristics, and your audience will learn more with less effort:
Explore this guide to making better slide presentations from Vanderbilt University. The observations about audience preferences was drawn from this resource, and it holds additional guidance around good and bad presentations.
It can be difficult to present detailed scientific information in a clear and simple manner. Some key things to keep in mind are:
This guide from Online Scientist outlines good design principles for scientific slides. Although the content is focussed on primary research rather than information-based research, the concepts are applicable to all information-heavy presentations.
Land Acknowledgement
Trinity Western University's Langley campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Stó:lō people. We are grateful for the opportunity to live, work, and learn on this land.
