When the Scientist Presents: An Audio and Video Guide to Science Talks by Jean-luc Lebrun
The book comes with a DVD for audio and video examples, and includes
essential PowerPoint and keynote techniques that a presenter cannot
live without.
This book looks at the presenting scientist from a novel angle: the
presenter-host. When scientists give a talk, the audience ('guests')
expects the title of the talk to determine presentation content, they
require understandable slides, and they demand visible and audible
scientific authority. To each expectation corresponds a set of skills:
personal (voice, host qualities, time control), technical (presentation
tools and slide design), and scientific (Q&A, slide content). The
author takes an original human factor view of the presentation
delivery, in which the audience is easily distracted, rapidly
forgetful, and increasingly impatient. Thus, insightful pointers are
given on how to deliver the talk, how to craft the slides, and how to
prevent the computer from rendering the presenting host-scientist into
a 'ghost'. In addition, the book goes in-depth over the treatment of
questions by examining the motives and style of the questioners, and
advising on how best to answer to each type of questioner.
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