Once you become the researcher whose name others circle in the conference program, your academic career develops much easier: citations to your papers accumulate, collaboration opportunities mount, and research funding starts to flow.
The book “Scientific Presentation Skills” will show you the building blocks for designing effective posters and delivering powerful scientific presentations. Most importantly, it will show you how to master presentation skills so that you can present with ease, regardless of whether it is at a conference, workshop, lecture, or thesis defense.
Through both good and bad examples, this book shows how to master the presenting skills every scientist should possess.
Contents of “Scientific Presentation Skills”
Part I: Five-S Presenting Pyramid
You don’t need some special talent for giving powerful academic presentations. It’s just a set of skills that anyone can master. In the first part of the book, you will learn how to acquire five presenting skills through a scientifically-proven learning approach.
Part II: Design an Effective poster
Poster sessions hold enormous potential for sparking great ideas and finding new collaboration partners. In the second part, I will show you three helpful steps for creating and presenting a scientific poster that can efficiently achieve this.
What happens when you read the book
What’s included with the book purchase
Download and use each of the four research conference poster slide templates.
Access a PowerPoint slide template tailored for scientific presentations. Its preformatted layouts follow the best practices for academic conference slide design.
Download two cheat sheets that summarize advice from the book so that you can take a quick look at them whenever you are getting ready for a presentation.
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The author – Martins Zaumanis
This is my heart rate during a presentation early in my academic career. You will notice the peak is about the same as when I am running a competitive race.
Despite not having a talent for it, I learned to give powerful presentations. This helped me to build partnerships, attract citations and ensure research funding. With this book, I will show how you can achieve this as well.
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The Peer Recognized book series
Eventually, there will be six books in the Peer Recognized book series, each of which will focus on one of the primary academic communication skills that will help to build an academic career. As you can see in the figure, the books are arranged in a sequence that reflects the needs at the different stages in an academic career. Depending on your career stage, choose which one to read.
Here is more information about the books in the series:
