Presentation Tips

Advance Preparation

A successful oral presentation creates value for the attending audience in both coverage and clarity. The Congress oral sessions will provide the opportunity of being in the spotlight with peers who have chosen to give you their time and attention. Excellent presenters understand the responsibility to the audience and use the presentation time wisely and well.

Presentation Content

Decide on a limited number of the significant ideas you want your audience to code, comprehend, and remember.

Minimize details (of procedure, data analysis, and literature review) when highlighting the main ideas you want to transmit.
Write out your presentation as a mini-lecture (with a listening audience in mind), starting with an outline that you expand into a narrative.
Include minimal but appropriate redundancy in important ideas to enhance comprehension and recall.
Speaker Preparation
Practice delivering it aloud in order to learn it well, to make its length fit in the time allocated, and to hear how it sounds.
Try to speak loud enough, clear enough, and with sufficient enthusiasm to hold the attention of your audience despite distractions (internal and external).

Delivery

Connect with your audience rather than reading your presentation and paper. Speak your ideas directly to your audience, focusing on key points and transitions in your speaking period.

State clearly the point of the research in simple and if possible, jargon-free terms clarifying what was discovered, and your interpretation of the results conceptually, methodologically, or in practical value.
Summarize your presentation succinctly and end on time.

Guidelines and Instructions: WCPG 2005 Posters

Successful poster presentations are those that achieve both coverage and clarity. The Congress poster sessions will provide a more intimate forum of exchange, facilitating informal discussions between authors and the attendees. Ideally, a well-constructed poster will be self-explanatory and free the author from answering obvious questions so that the focus is on the discussion between author and attendee.

Poster size is a 1m high and 1.5m wide. Please adhere to these size restrictions as this allows for the maximum number of posters, as well as continuous display throughout the conference.
At registration, you will be provided with instructions on your poster location, as well as a number to mount with the poster. The number will be on a 4” x 4” sized card with large writing
1. Poster installation is on Friday, October 14 from 3 p.m. – 9:00 p.
2. Posters should be mounted on the assigned board as early as possible and for the duration of the meeting.
We recommend that you prepare the following labels with lettering in bold, visible and 1” high (minimally) indicating:
1. the title of your paper
2. the author(s) for the top of your poster space
A copy of your abstract (250 words or less), in large typescript, should be posted in the upper left-hand corner of the poster board.
Please do not mount illustrations on heavy board because these may be difficult to keep in position on the poster board. The poster board is a bulletin board, and the posters will be adhered with thumbtacks.
Your illustration may be viewed at distances as far as 3 feet or more. We recommend that lettering should be at least 3/8 inches high, preferably in a typed and easy to read bold font.
Poster Viewing; Be in position with on your designated date and time at least 15 minutes in advance of the published viewing time.
Bring at least 50 copies of your paper with you for distribution on paper or DVD. Label this information clearly. On-site reproduction will NOT be available.