How To Give Successful Oral And Poster Presentations

How To Give A Successful Oral Presentation

• Introduction
• The attention curve
• Why does an audience get distracted
• How to organize your presentation
• In ten steps to a successful presentation

How To Make A Successful Poster

• What is a successful poster?
• Frequent mistakes
• In seven steps to a successful poster

We hope that the recommendations in this site and PDF document will help you to present effective talks and posters at future scientific meetings. Too many interesting pieces of research go lost because they are not presented properly. Your’s will not, if you work on your presentations skills. Remember that this brochure does not intend to offer a standard template for talks or posters, you should develop your own presentation style. Just try to avoid the mistakes that so many of your colleagues (including experienced scientists, yes, even Nobel Prize winners) make……

Literature:

• P. Kenny, A Handbook of Public Speaking for Scientists and Engineers, Adam Hilger Ltd, Bristol, 1982.
• V. Booth, Communicating in Science: Writing a Scientific Paper and Speaking at Scientific Meetings, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.
• M. Davis, Scientific Papers and Presentations, Academic Press, San Diego, 1996.

A checklist for analyzing oral presentations, and examples of posters can be found on www.efcats.org.

by J.W. Niemantsverdriet 
Schuit Institute of Catalysis
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands