Tips for Presenting your Paper at the Conference ...

We are pleased that you have agreed to present a paper at the next ESA conference.   These suggestions should help you with the preparations and result in an enjoyable and informative session for you and the audience.

1. Speak up – speak out – the audience in the back row wants to hear you too.
   
2. Face the audience when you are talking. Don't turn your back and deliver your paper to the projection screen.
   
3. If English is not your native language, speak slowly. It can be very difficult to follow a line of thought if one or two key words are lost.
   
4. Your visuals should be bold and simple and help you make a point. Do a trial run with all ofyour slides to be sure they can be easily read from 40 feet away. This means using fairly heavy lines and large font text.
   
5. If your visuals are in color, try not to use yellow or other pale colors. These colors do not show up well on the screen.
   
6. Never put up a page of text as one of your visuals. It will not project well and the audience is not going read it while you are talking, so it’s pointless. If it’s important, it belongs in the Proceedings version of the paper.
   
7. Remember that excellence and judicious choice of your visual aids, not their sheer quantity, will make your presentation memorable!

Tips courtesy of ESA member Sethar Davis

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