how to give a scientific seminar michelle chow ocean discovery! sebastopol, ca
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Nonverbal Communication“body movement and expression”
• Face audience
• Make eye contact
• Appropriate facial expressions
• Body movement (pacing, swaying)
• Dress appropriately
Verbal Communication
• Speak at a reasonable pace
• Intonation (tone of voice, use of voice)
• Pause when needed
• Avoid excessive use of “um” or “like” or “so”
Suggestions for Practicing
• Practice at least three times!!!
• Get feedback from your peers.
• Before you start to speak take a few seconds to organize your thoughts, notes and equipment.
Appearance of your slides “You want people to focus
on your message”
• Use a simple design for your slides. This is a professional seminar.
• Text must not fade into background.
• Choose an appropriate font that can be read from the back of the room.
• Size 32 – 36 for bulleted text
• Size 44 – 48 for titles
• Each slides does not need to have a title. Especially if a title is redundant or obvious.
• Spread bullets apart to avoid reader’s brain overload.
• Paragraph—spacing—6-12 pt after paragraph.
• Pictures and graphs should take up the whole slide. Axes text and statistics hard to read from back of room.
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Michelle’s Don’t List
• Clip art when not appropriately used (which is most of the time).
• Slides and lines that zip in and out of space. Please have all your text on the slide at the same time.
• All slides should transition appropriately (use no transition or fade at fast speed)
• No music, unless you are studying dolphins and are recording their mating calls.
Planning the package• Know your audience
• Define terms
• Provide an overview if complex
• Integrate text and images– map of study area, distribution– understand overall idea/theory/topic– images of organism/scientific name– repeat the question if necessary
Planning the package• Clear purpose/logical sequence
• Consistency in style and language
• Bulleted information
• Prompts for speaker and audience
• Time yourself: 1 frame /minute
• Leave time for questions
• Don’t read your talk
Techniques that help• Memorize opening sentence
• Note cards
• Tough question?– anticipate questions that poke holes– anticipate future direction questions– repeat the question– “That’s a good question”– “I don’t know but…”
Advice to Fellows
• Practice within a group and then between groups.
• Bring laser pointer into class to demonstrate how to use it correctly
• Remind students they will be using a microphone
More advice
• Everything presented verbally or visually should have a clear role in support of the central thesis or theses of the talk.
• If anything doesn’t do this, remove it.borders, animations, clipart, etc
Listener’s Responsibility
• No talking
• Listen closely
• Think of at least one question to ask speaker
• Stay awake (no sleeping) and engaged during the talk
Introduction• Introduce topic, big picture. Why?
• Explain how you reached your questions/hypotheses.
• Define scientific terms. Use scientific names for organisms.
• Visual Aids (slides of organisms)
• List questions your study addresses.
Methods
• Summarize methods = Use methods as an explanation of how you addressed your questions.
• Visual Aids (pictures of study sites or setup is most effective).
• Organize methods to help audience easily follow your research.
Flow Chart for Presentation Organization
R e su lts a n dIn te rp re ta tio n A
M e th o d fo ra d d re ss in g A
Q u e s tio n A
H o w a ll parts fit in to :1. O rig inal questions2 . B ig p ic tu re3 . P a s t re se a rch
R e su lts a n dIn te rp re ta tio n B
M e th o d fo ra d d re ss in g B
Q u e s tio n B
R e su lts a n dIn te rp re ta tio n C
M e th o d fo ra d d re ss in g C
Q u e s tio n C
In tro d u c tio nQ u e s tio n s
Results
• Use tables and/or figures to present data.
• Avoid verbalizing too many numerical values (especially without visual aids).
• Show audience only data and results that are important in addressing your questions.
• Remind audience how each method or result fits back to the questions of your study.
Discussion
• Talk about results with respect to: Your study’s questions Past research
• Make logical conclusions about your research findings.
• Visual Aids (refer back to tables and figures used in results)
Conclusions
• Visual Aid = Outline of questions from introduction with acceptance or rejection of null hypothesis.
• Big picture
• Future research
• Acknowledgements
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