Preparing a Talk ... Read on!
We've all been to great scientific talks and to terrible ones. I've been analyzing and making notes on talks to identify good techniques.
Tips for Good Job Talks
Postdoc Development Workshop 12/17/2019, slides updated 2024
NOTE: If you download the Powerpoint slides, you will find my notes and comments on each one.
talks_talk_updated24.pptxAdvice for Session Chairs
session_chair_advice.pdfGiving a Good Conference Talk
Advice for undergraduates, updated 2024 for our EPIIC Undergraduate Research Internship Program
interns_talk_on_talks.pptxLinks to Other Useful Advice
Creating Effective Poster Presentations by Hess, Tosney and Liegel
How to make presentations friendly to colorblind people by Okabe and Ito and my IDL program to implement their palette that is unambiguous to those with and without color blindness.
TedBlog: 10 tips on how to make slides tha communicate your idea [thanks to Elizabeth Frank for sending this link]
Advice on Giving Talks
The craft of scientific presentations : critical steps to succeed and critical errors to avoid / Michael Alley. -- New York : Springer, c2003. Main Library -- -- [T 10.5 .A38 2003]
Scientific papers and presentations / Martha Davis ; illustrations by Gloria Fry ; cover and frontispiece by Sheri Wheeler Wiltse. -- Rev. ed. -- Burlington, Mass. : Academic Press, c2005. Main Library [T 11 .D32 2005]
Dazzle 'em with style : the art of oral scientific presentation / Robert R.H. Anholt. -- New York : W.H. Freeman and Co., c1994. Main Library [T 10.5 .A63 1994]
Advice on Preparing Figures / Graphics
Preparing scientific illustrations : a guide to better posters, presentations, and publications / Mary Helen Briscoe. -- 2nd ed. -- New York : Springer, c1996. Main Library [T 11.8 .B75 1996]
Envisioning information / Edward R. Tufte. -- 2nd printing, with revisions. -- Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, 1991, c1990. Main Library [P 93.5 .T84 1991]
The visual display of quantitative information / Edward R. Tufte. -- Cheshire, -- -- Conn.: Graphics Press, c1983. Main Library -- [QA 276.3 .T83]
Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative / Edward R. Tufte. -- Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, c1997. Main Library [P 93.5 .T85 1997]
Information graphics : a comprehensive illustrated reference / Robert L. Harris. -- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. Main Library [P 93.5 H29 1999]
Visual strategies : a practical guide to graphics for scientists & engineers / Felice C. Frankel & Angela H. DePace. -- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2012. Main Library [P 93.5 .F73 2012]