Conference poster presentation: speech planning

1 How to present a scientific poster

1.2 What you should know before starting

  1. What's the aim of your poster? engage a discussion about the content? Let the people learn something and try to apply the method on their own? Find out collaborations? The speech must reflect this. The template and the design should be functional to this;

1.3 Goals

  1. To create a memorable and positive impression;
  2. to open the door to further conversations;
  3. find out possible collaborations;
  4. let your poster emerge from the 40 other near you;

1.4 What you should answer in the first two minutes speech

  1. What is the topic of your research?
  2. what is the question that you are answering in your research;
  3. why this question is important;
  4. So what?;
  5. how does your work connect with a broader disciplinary conversation?

1.5 Language

  1. offer topical touchstones accessible to the listener;
  2. avoid jargon;
  3. use action verbs to show the movement of your work and the activity or action involved;

1.6 Tips and tricks

  1. Have a two minutes for an elevator speech i.e., a short summary used to quickly define my research;
  2. try to engage the audience, do not wait for viewers to ask questions. "Would you like to hear about my resesearch in two minutes or less?";
  3. then leave them free to ask questions. If you do not know some answers admit it, speak about it with the person;
  4. be sure that the person who is hearing understand the technical aspects of what are you explaining.
  5. Speak loud and slow i.e. you should think that you are speaking too slowly. Do not use filters like "um", "uh", "like", "you know" and "okay";
  6. Make practice with your family and friends;
  7. try to engage a crowd, the more viewers the more will be attracted;
  8. Posters are not papers. In a poster you need to distill your work without loosing the logical flow but you can connect more works and make the logical flow more explicit;

Date: 2015-02-08 19:03:06 CET

Author: falematte

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