Guide for first presentation
James Raymond Vreeland
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
INAF 100-14
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Time limits
• Respect them
• 5 minutes tops
• 9 minutes!!!
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Slides
• Minimize words
• Audience-focus: Presenter
• Slides punctuate
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Your slides should look more like the one
before this slide, not this one because this is a
good example of a bad slide. N’est-ce pas?
• You should use the absolute minimum number of words
on a slide to prompt you and your audience
• You don’t want your audience to be focused on your
slides – they should be focused on you - not reading
your slides. So wordy slides should be avoided
• The slide should just highlight what you are talking about
because if you put a lot of words you will have a
tendency to read to your audience and meantime your
audience won’t be sure what they should be focusing on.
So many presentations are ruined before they start
because of crappy slides like this one. So don’t make
any slides like this or else! Got it?
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Presentation matters
• Dress for the part
– Step it up a notch (just a notch – not too much)
• Make slides interesting
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Not with words
Use animation (bullets that appear)
***Figures***
***Tables***
• Don’t get carried away
– Don’t overdress your slides or yourself
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Example figure
Audience
attention
Number of words on a slide
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Drama
• Pose questions
• >Pause<
– Highly effective…
– The dramatic pause
• Engage the audience
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Substance
• Begin with your question
• Introduce the debate
• Offer your answer
• Present your methodology
• Evidence
• Conclude: Your question & your answer
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Take-home point
• Begin and end with a single point:
• The #1 point that your audience should remember
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Thank you
WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!
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Take-aways
• Respect time limits
• Minimalist slides
• Use drama
– Pose questions
– Animation
• End with a “take-away”
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