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Goals of Session Place and Importance of Presentations Goals of Presentations Organization Tips
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Making Effective Presentations
Graduate Student Research SymposiumTexas State University – San Marcos
Thursday March 26, 2009
• Patricia M. ShieldsProfessor Political Science
• Director, MPA Program• http://uweb.txstate.edu/~ps07/
• EditorArmed Forces & Society
• http://afs.sagepub.com/
Goals of Session• Place and Importance of
Presentations• Goals of Presentations• Organization• Tips
Understanding Place and Importance of Presentations
• Professional Exposure
• Share Preliminary Work
Professional Exposure
• Who you know and what you know – way to enhance both• Impress important people in your
field• Meet like minded people – share
ideas/collaboration potential
Share Preliminary Work
• Most journal articles have been presented as conference papers first.
• Way to get valuable feedback from likeminded professionals.
Goals of presentation
• Clear goal for presentation – let audience know.• Presentation not the paper• Clear professional goal for the
presentation.
Organization
• Big Picture (goal - where paper fits inlandscape of field)
• Little Picture – details of paper
• Synthesis
1. Tell them what your going to tell them
2. Tell them3. Tell them what you told
them
Tips
• Know your audience
• Rapport with audience
• Don’t take criticism personally – act professionally
• Avoid death by power-point
Review – Goals of session
• Where presentations fit in career• Importance of having clear goals• Importance of organization• Tips