presenting your research results
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Presenting Your Research Results. Beth S. Gottlieb, MD, MS Division of Pediatric Rheumatology Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Presenting Your Work. Your presentation is your way of showing what you have found Do it well!. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Presenting Your Research Results
Beth S. Gottlieb, MD, MSDivision of Pediatric RheumatologyCohen Children’s Medical Center of New YorkNorth Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Presenting Your Work
Your presentation is your way of showing what you have found Do it well!
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips
Slides should be: Simple Clear Concise
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips: Be Simple
There is no need to get too fancy and high-tech!
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips: Be Simple
You don’t need to show-off that you know how
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips: Be Simple
It doesn’t make what you say any better
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips: Be Concise
Slides should be: Concise Don’t write every word that you will say, everyone will be so busy reading that they won’t listen to you – instead bullet important points/words.
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips: Be Clear
Slides should be: Clear No paragraphs
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
Evaluation of arthritis – CBC, ESR, Lyme titer, Parvovirus IgG and IgM, ASLO, ANA, RF
………………………………………Evaluation of arthritis CBC, ESR Lyme titer, ASLO, Parvovirus ANA, RF
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
Try not to put more than 7 lines per slide
Keep your font size 36 Use a “sans serif” font
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
Too many lines of type, makes the print too small
People in the back can’t read it People with less than perfect vision
can’t read it They will struggle to read while you
speak Not everyone can sit in the front row Better to split it into 2 slides
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
Too many lines of type, make the print too small
People in the back can’t read it
People with less than perfect vision can’t read it
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
They will struggle to read while you speak
Not everyone can sit in the front row
Better to split it into 2 slides
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
Font Size The first line starts with a font of
32 Then PowerPoint automatically Decreases Font size
With Each level of outline/bullet
Down to 20
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
Font Size Instead go to “Slide Master”
under the “view” tab and set it for:
A 1st line with 36 Second indent of 36
Everything else after at 32
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
Font Size If you don’t have many lines of type
The font size defaults to 40 instead of 36
36 is ok – 40 is better
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips – Be Clear
Font Use a “sans serif” font such as Tahoma or Arial T
Time New Roman and CG Times are difficult to see clearly on a slide especially from afar
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Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips
Don’t overuse your pointer It isn’t necessary to point at
each word you read It is difficult not to show
your hand shaking Use the pointer for emphasis
Pictures, graphs, etc.
Presenting Your Work:PowerPoint Tips
Speak slowly and clearly Allow time for questions Estimate 1 minute per slide Summary slide at the end