Few Guidelines For Effective Research Presentations

How a good research should be presented

• There should be a title slide with title, speaker name, speaker affiliation, and contact email
• An agenda slide listing the agenda of the presentation helps the audience to understand the flow of the presentation
• An introduction/motivation section is mandatory to make the audience aware about the importance of the research to be presented
• Motivation section should be followed by a listing of problem statements. Each problem statement should have proper binding with the motivation presented earlier
• Problem statement should be followed by the listing of contributions of the presented research. Each problem statement and contribution should have a binding/link to each other
• End of presentation should have a conclusion/summary slide concluding/summarizing the whole presentation
• Make sure that each fact/evidence/result/research finding in your presentation is properly referenced
• The vocabulary across presentation should be consistent
• All reference should be written with consistent structure. At-least each reference should have Authors name, Publication title, Publication venue, and date of publication.
• For reference of web resources, do mention the last access date
• Please avoid using hard/strong sentences
• Please avoid giving a statement, which could not be proved
• Each slide should have a slide number, and title
• Make sure that slides are neither too empty nor too full
• Avoid putting too much text on slides; instead make use of bullets with important keywords and phrases
• Ensure that terms are only abbreviated on their first usage in the presentation
• Ensure that all images and text is properly visible
• Avoid using a background, which may not be properly visible because of minor projector faults
• Always make copy of your presentation in different tools that could used. For example, Adobe acrobat and MS Office 2010/2007/2003
• Always take a backup of your presentation; especially one backup should be available online
• Never forget to execute a spell check on your presentation. It is recommended to get your presentation proof reader by another person
• Always invest sufficient time in formatting your slides (Text alignment, Fonts, Color, Indentation, and Spacing)
• Presentation should be consistent across all slides, such as cases for sentences. Either it should be sentence case, upper case, or title case
• During the presentation avoid turning your back to the audience
• Avoid putting your hands in pocket
• Speech delivery during the presentation should be neither slow nor fast. A smooth pace of delivery of content makes it more understandable for audience
• Use the stresses and pauses on important facts and points to take the focus of the audience
• Make sure that you have eye-contact distributed across all audience during the presentation
• Always do a rehearsal of presentation. I improve the fluency of the presentation
•  Check the attached image for a guide line about what a good presentation should have and how it should be linked