How to Give a Good Research Talk (Jones, Hughes, Launchbury)
2What to say. Your talk should be an appetizer for reading the paper. Tailor it to the audience and give a clear takeaway message. Instead of showing the theory — framework and abstraction — show the examples that motivated your work: whenever you introduce notation, results, or ideas, give examples. Every idea should be illustrated with an example.
Pruning your talk. Of course, you may want to give all the beautiful introduction and conceptual understanding of a paper, but you cannot. You need to decide that some parts of the talk are going to be pruned so as to allow others to grow.
Telling it how it is. There is a temptation to conceal problems to simplify presentation: this is very bad, because the audience will notice there is something wrong there. It is better to explain that there is some difficulty going on.
Handwritten slides. Handwriting makes diagrams easier.
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