Role of Scientific Conferences
Conference Proposal Abstracts
Organizing your Research Talk
Methods of Oral Presentations
Delivering Conference Presentations
100

These 2 avenues of modern professional conventions are extensions of traditional communication and socializing modes.

What are webinars and Telecoms?

100

This style of scientific writing is typically applied to conference presentation abstracts.

What is IMRD?

100

These two sections of a conference presentation captivate the audience's attention the most.

What are the introduction and conclusion?

100

These two problems arise when you give a presentation from memory alone.

What are stiff deliveries and forgetting parts?

100

This is the typical range that public speakers recommend for words spoken per minute in a presentation.

What is 120 to 150 words per minute?

200

This scientist noted that publication was not enough for an individual to participate in scientific knowledge sharing.

Who is Reif-Lehrer?

200

All abstracts you submit to a conference must be ready for what?

What is publication?

200

This portion of the 3-part introduction is traditionally used to begin a conference presentation.

What is announcing the topic?

200

According to Reif-Lehrer this can be used for short presentations.

What is memorizing?

200

These two things are critical when delivering conference Presentations.

What are volume and pitch?

300

Theses two important dimensions of conference presentation and communication.

What is personality and style?

300

When preparing a conference abstract, authors are often asked for nine "Key Submission Elements". Can you name three of them?

What are formatting, style, keywords, student travel grants, subject category, number of characters, content, graphs and tables, and contact information?

300

These 2 things should be clearly stated at the start of your presentation.

What are the purpose and rationale?

300

While scientists employ a variety of oral presentation techniques, researchers use this method.

What are prepared text and notes?

300

This aspect of delivering a conference presentation is considered the "musical" tone.

What is Pitch?

400

These two modes are the most common ways to present at a conference.

What is a poster and talk?

400

These are four of the nine reasons a conference abstract may be rejected.

No hypothesis, inadequate methods, insufficient data presented, no summary of essential results, no conclusion, poorly written, not appropriate for the conference, or a duplicated abstract.

400

This is a creative way to engage the audience if you have extra time in your presentation.

What is elaborating on the structure of the talk?

400

These three aspects of communication are typically combined in a scientific presentation.

What are memorizing, reading, and speaking extemporaneously?

400

Body, stance, facial expressions, and hand gestures are all part of what?

What is the message?

500

These are two important characteristics to pay attention to when observing another individual's presentation.

What are common visuals, presentation time limits, differences from research reports,  and presentation approaches?

500

These styles of abstracts are typically seen where the purpose and the methods are clearly defined, but the results and conclusions are occasionally omitted.

What is a Promissory Abstract?

500

This biophysicist elaborated more on the structure to fill time in their presentation.

Who is Carl Blackman?

500

The results of an extemporaneous presentation can feel like this type of presentation.

What is a spontaneous presentation?

500

Speakers maintain eye contact with the audience not just to engage them, but to gauge if they can hear, understand, and agree with your presentation. This aspect of eye contact is called. 

What is to monitor the audience?