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Giving Conference Presentations

Enhance your presentation skills with tips on designing slideshows, physical presentation etiquette, reading versus speaking, and more. Learn how to make a lasting impact at conferences.

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Giving Conference Presentations

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  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 Q&A

  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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