XTOP: Xiaotu Conference of Science & Engineering
   with Open Participation
Speak & Present Like a Native Speaker

Oral Presentation Guidelines

Introduction

All contributed presentations are 15 minutes. You should be prepared to speak for 11 to 12 minutes leaving 4 to 5 minutes for questions. A computer (Microsoft Windows) with USB port and an LCD projector will be provided in the conference room. I suggest you also upload a copy of your presentation on the cloud.

The following are guidelines only. While it is recommended that you follow these guidelines, it is not required.

Talk Organization

In organizing your oral presentation, the speaker is asked to take into consideration that those listening to your talk:
  1. come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds
  2. have a limited grasp of the English language.
Thus, it is not appropriate that your talk be too specific to your discipline or use too many "big" English words.

Viewgraphs

I suggest that you prepare 12-15 viewgraphs for your talk. I suggests you allocate slides as...
  1. Title Page (Include a picture of your supervisor)
  2. Outline of the talk
  3. General Introduction
  4. General Introduction and Importance of the Research
  5. Overview of the Research area
  6. Overview of the Research area
  7. Experimental techniques
  8. Experimental techniques
  9. Key Research Results
  10. Key Research Results
  11. Key Research Results
  12. Conclusions & importance of the work
  13. Next steps (i.e. what you will do next)
  14. Possibilities for future collaboration

Questions to ask yourself after your talk is prepared...