The craft of scientific presentationsMichael Alley
The craft of scientific presentations
by Michael Alley · first published 2013
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"The Craft of Scientific Presentations, 2nd edition aims to strengthen you as a presenter of science and engineering. The book does so by identifying what makes excellent presenters such as Brian Cox, Jane Goodall, Richard Feynman, and Jill Bolte Taylor so strong. In addition, the book explains what causes so many scientific presentations to flounder. One of the most valuable contributions of this text is that it teaches the assertion-evidence approach to scientific presentations. Instead of building presentations, as most engineers and scientists do, on the weak foundation of topic phrases an
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…of the slide is some information, preferably graphical, that supports the assertion. Reading the titles in order should give you a strong sense of the presentation content. I strongly recommend "The Craft of Scientific Presentations" by Michael Alley, which covers the assertion-evidence approach, and a host of other practical topics. [0] https://www.assertion-evidence.com
on “Ask HN: What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?” ↗…http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html I'm in no way affiliated with him, just found his rant online. I think his points apply to a lot of technical presentations (though certainly not all). Another helpful resource is "The Craft of Scientific Presentations": http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Scientific-Presentations-Critica... The bottom line is that the tool itself is probably less relevant than we think it is, though I agree with Tufte that text-intensive…
on “Show HN: Slide – an open-source plain text presentation maker” ↗For scientific/technical talks specifically, a truly useful technique I learned from The Craft of Scientific Presentations[1] is the assertion-evidence slide. This type of slide has a complete sentence at the top that makes a substantive assertion. Then the rest of the slide contains evidence for that assertion usually…
on “How to give a great scientific talk” ↗