paper critique & summarization : How to give a good research talk

Title : How to give a good research talk
Author: Simon L Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury

Summarization:

This paper propose some notices that may help the paper presentation.

1. About the material, the most important is, who are your audience?
Although for the same topic, you should have different material depend on what your audience would like to listen.

2. Ddopt a non-uniform approach to your talk! Pick some really important to your audience to talk, don't waste too much time on the section which is boring.

3. Put only 6~7 things in a slide, and maybe some images or diagrams are better then only the text. "Present" your slides, not "read" the text in your slides.

4. Don't prepare the slides early. (In fact, I disagree this point, I think that spend more time on preparing slides is OK for me to have more chance to make the slides better.)

5. Attract the eyes of audience in short minute and don't over-run.


Citique:

This paper propose some simple tips for paper presentation, some is useful for me, I always spent some time on the non-important parts in my presentation. But maybe because of my english is poor, I feel the way this paper written is not so smooth for me, some sentances take my more time to figure out what it wants to present.