In our previous discussion, we explored the informal dynamics of remote communication, adopting a conversational approach. Today, however, we’ll shift our focus to a more formal yet equally important ...

Academic presentations are a form of oral assessment. Your lecturer will be looking for you to demonstrate an understanding of the topic and its audience, appropriate and evidenced reading, an ...

Should we have a 50 percent content / discussion formula for academic presentations? Meaning that the time allotted for content delivery should not exceed 50 percent, and the time reserved for ...

As a presenter, your main job is to guide the audience through your argument in the clearest, most engaging, most efficient way possible. You must respect the audience’s time and attention. This means ...

We’ve all sat through -- and given -- presentations with too many PowerPoint slides. Moreover, we’ve all toyed with the various ways of trying to make complex theories, long quotable quotes from ...

A number of my colleagues seem to have gotten the bad idea that something like this makes a good slide in a presentation: The text is unreadable because this is a screenshot of a published journal ...

Standing up in front of other people and sharing your ideas can be a stressful experience, but also extremely rewarding intellectually. You may be asked to present your work either individually or as ...

Whether you love giving them or loathe the entire experience, everyone has to deliver a presentation at some point during an academic career – be they student or professional researcher. It might be ...