As a presenter, your goal is to convey the most important information about your chosen topic to the audience in an understandable way, and to make them interested in reading your paper.

Your presentation should be 10 minutes long and must not exceed that time. To keep the schedule, your presentation will be cut off at 10 minutes. It's a good idea to practice your presentation and time it, and to keep a timer running during the presentation.

After the presentation, there will be 10 minutes for discussion. The discussion is divided into two parts:

  1. Questions and comments from the opponent.
  2. Open discussion.

There is no difference for you as a presenter between these two parts. Answer all questions as best you can, and take notes of comments and ideas that you can use to improve your paper.

The paper presentation conveys a selection of the same information that you have in your paper. The structure can also be very similar: introduce the topic, explain the goals and research questions of your paper, shortly explain the method – and then spend most of the time on presenting your most important results, discuss what they mean, and summarise. You should not try to include everything that you have in the paper. The presentation should focus only on the most important points. Those interested can read the details in the paper. A common mistake is to spend too much time on introducing the topic, the questions, and the method. This will force you to rush through the most important parts, namely, the results and discussion of them.

You can use visual aids such as slides in your presentation. Remember that text-heavy slides distract the audience from what you are saying. Don't read directly from the slides. The slides should support what you are saying, not overwhelm or distract the audience.

As a presenter, you are also part of the audience for other presenters. Listen to their presentations, learn about the topics they have investigated, and help others to learn by asking questions and giving constructive comments. You also have an important role in making the seminar a nice experience by giving encouragement and pointing out what you thought was interesting.

You should also give feedback to all presentations using the quick feedback form.

Last modified: Friday, 3 December 2021, 8:54 AM