Guidelines for oral presentations and preparation of slides

摘要

The following guidelines are given to help you to prepare your oral presentations and your slides. They should be considered as suggestions based on experience, and not as strict and mandatory rules. As an oral presentation also reflects the personality of its author, it is obvious that rules should be adapted by each speaker. The following guidelines are provided to avoid lousy presentations: if you follow them, you increase your chance of giving an attractive and successful presentation, but it is not an absolute guarantee. Oral presentations remain a kind of art, and techniques are necessary but never sufficient...