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HOW TO PRESENT A PAER
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What to Say and How to Say it
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Getting Though the Audience
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Visual and Aural Aids.
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Question Time
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Communicate the idea
 Make sure your talk emphasis the key idea and skip the what
is standard or obvious or complicated.
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Don’t get Bogged Down in Details
 Details are out of place in an oral presentation.
 Anybody lacking technical knowledge want less detail-Any
body with modest will can fill in detail by studding your paper.
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Structure your talk
 Your presentation should b split into part each with its own
objective and style.
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Use a top down structure
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Introduction
The body
Technicalities
Conclusion
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INTRODUCTION
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Define the problem
 How difficult the problem is, it can be described in
under 5 minutes.
 Remember If the audience doesn’t understand the
problem the won’t understand the rest.
Motivate the Audience
 Introduce Terminology
 Discuss earlier work
 Emphasis the contribution of your
work
 Provide a road map
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INTRODUCTION
Define the problem
 Motivate the Audience
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 Explain why the problem is so important.
 What are its application.
 Why it is non-trivial.
Introduce Terminology
Discuss earlier work
Emphasis the contribution of your
work
 Provide a road map
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INTRODUCTION
Define the problem
 Motivate the Audience
 Introduce Terminology
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 All terms must be introduced earlier.
 Also useful to remind them in critical points later.
Discuss earlier work
 Emphasis the contribution of your
work
 Provide a road map
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INTRODUCTION
Define the problem
 Motivate the Audience
 Introduce Terminology
 Discuss earlier work
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 Describe relevant or related work.
 Be sure to mention the author and it publication
date.
 Compare and contrast them with each other.
Emphasis the contribution of your
work
 Provide a road map
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INTRODUCTION
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Define the problem
Motivate the Audience
Introduce Terminology\
Discuss earlier work
Emphasis the contribution of your work
 Make sure you explicitly state the contribution
for to your research.
 Don’t let the audience to search the result
through the bunch of details.
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Provide a road map
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INTRODUCTION
Define the problem
 Motivate the Audience
 Introduce Terminology\
 Discuss earlier work
 Emphasis the contribution of your
work
 Provide a road map
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 Give the audience a brief guide to rest of you talk
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The body
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Abstract the major results
 Describe the key of the paper.
 You have to get technical here, but gradually.
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Explain the significance of the Result
 PAUSE and explain the relation between the formal
theorem and the informal description in the
introduction.
 If the statement of theorem is very technical this may
take sometime.
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Sketch a proof of the Crucial Result
 Give a very high-level description of proof.
 Emphasis the proof structure and the proof
technique.
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Technicalities
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Sometimes you should get into some details for experts
expecting more technicalities to prove your result.
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Present a Key Lemma
 Choose just one key result. It should be important, non-
trivial presentable in a relatively short period of time.
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Present it Carefully
 You may descend into messy technical details, but try to
be as succinct and clear as possible.
 You might want to fill in one of the gaps that may appear
in the paper, to give the audience, something that they
could not get by staying home and reading the paper.
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The conclusion
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Hindsight is clearer than foresight
 Make observation of what had been confusing
earlier.
 Refer to statement you have mentioned in three last
and make them coherent.
 You will regain the attention of non-expert that had
not following the discussion.
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Give open problem
 End with a list of open problems.
 Mention weakness of your work.(this may defuse
antagonizing question during question time)
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Indicate that your problem is over
 E.X, “Thank you” or “Any question”
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Know Your Audience
 Make sure that your talk is prepared at the right
level. There are four types of audience:
 1. Scientists:
 Most of the audience won't even know what Computer
Science is.
 Emphasize the Introduction and the Body.
 Remember you will have to define many terms that you
have taken for granted for years.
2. Computer Scientists
 3. Theoretical Computer Scientists
 4. Experts
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Know Your Audience
Make sure that your talk is prepared at the right
level. There are four types of audience:
1. Scientists:
2. Computer Scientists
 Most of the audience will not know what Theoretical
Computer Science is.
 You can introduce a small Technicalities section, but brief.
 emphasis should remain on the Introduction and the Body.
 typically encountered during job interviews and
departmental colloquia.
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3. Theoretical Computer Scientists
4. Experts
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Know Your Audience
Make sure that your talk is prepared at the right
level. There are four types of audience:
1. Scientists:
2. Computer Scientists
3. Theoretical Computer Scientists
 You will no longer need to be quite so careful with
definitions, but it is politic to provide reminders.
 The emphasis should be on the Body of the talk, and part
of Technicalities.
 Typically encountered during departmental colloquia and
major theory conferences.
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4. Experts
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Know Your Audience
Make sure that your talk is prepared at the right
level. There are four types of audience:
1. Scientists:
2. Computer Scientists
3. Theoretical Computer Scientists
4. Experts
 The emphasis should be on the Body and the
Technicalities.
 This type of audience will be typically encountered
during small, specialized conferences and workshops.
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What to Say and How to Say it
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Getting Though the Audience
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Visual and Aural Aids.
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Question Time
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Use repetition
 Tell them what you are going to tell them in
introduction. Tell them in the body. Tell what you told
them in conclusion.
 Do not be scared of repetition.
 Repeat a fact in different ways.
Remind don’t assume
 Don’t overrun
 Maintain eye contact
 Control your voice
 Take care with your appearance
 Minimize language difficulties
 Try not to get anxious
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Use repetition
 Remind don’t assume
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 If your paper assumes a standard result, then
phrase the result as a reminder.
 Phrase it as a reminder for those who are not
familiar with it.
Don’t overrun
 Maintain eye contact
 Control your voice
 Take care with your appearance
 Minimize language difficulties
 Try not to get anxious
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Use repetition
 Remind don’t assume
 Don’t overrun
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 Don’t try to cover too much material.
 If you are short of time cut the technicalities.
 Departmental Colloquia last for fifty minutes and the
conference from fifteen to thirty minutes.
Maintain eye contact
 Control your voice
 Take care with your appearance
 Minimize language difficulties
 Try not to get anxious
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Use repetition
 Remind don’t assume
 Don’t overrun
 Maintain eye contact
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 Spread attention through a the audience instead
concentrating on nay person.
 For beginner choose in random places and look at
them successively.
Control your voice
 Control your motions
 Minimize language difficulties
 Try not to get anxious
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Use repetition
 Remind don’t assume
 Don’t overrun
 Maintain eye contact
 Control your voice
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 Speak clearly
 Don’t speak in mono tone
 Avoid utterances (“Um , Ur, etc”)
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Control your motions
 Project energy and vitality without appearing
hyperactive
Minimize language difficulties
 Try not to get anxious
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Use repetition
Remind don’t assume
Don’t overrun
 Maintain eye contact
 Control your voice
 Control your motions
 Minimize language difficulties
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 Get a native to look over your transparences before your
talk.
 At all cost try to avoid peaking from prepared text.
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Try not to get anxious
 The best antidote for anxiety is experience.
 Prepare or practice the talk to the fellow students.
 Pay undo attention to the reaction of most important
persons.
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
What to Say and How to Say it

Getting Though the Audience
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Visual and Aural Aids
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Question Time
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Make Legible Slides
 Make sure the text is large enough to be read
from long distance.
 12-point is unaccepted 18-point is ok.
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Don’t Use Too Many Slides
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Use color effectively
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Use Pictures and Tables
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Make Legible Slides
 Don’t Use Too Many Slides
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 This indicates that your talk contains too mach
material.
 If you change slides too often the audience will not
have time to digest each properly.
 The number of slides vary form person to person and
the material presented.
 Allow the average of 1.5 to 2 minutes for each slides.
Use color effectively
 Use Pictures and Tables
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Make Legible Slides
 Don’t Use Too Many Slides
 Use color effectively
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 The use of colors can enhance a presentation.
 Change the color of the text by motivation(E.X.
use different color for the statement of theorem)
 Avoid the temptation to produce a rainbow!!
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Use Pictures and Tables
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Make Legible Slides
 Don’t Use Too Many Slides
 Use color effectively
 Use Pictures and Tables
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 Remember “A picture is worth a thousand
words”
 Give necessary explanation to each, so it is
better to say:
“A picture plus a hundred words is worth a
thousand words”
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
What to Say and How to Say it
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Getting Though the Audience
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Visual and Aural Aids.
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Question Time
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You should expect three types of questions:
 Genuine request
 It Causes no difficulties if you are adequately
prepared.
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Selfish question
 Take a few second to compose and erudite
reply that compliment the questioner.
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Malicious Questions
 Be prepared, be polite, and avoid getting
involved in a lengthy exchange.
 Some times advisable to short-circuit it by
offering to take them offline.
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