There are some excellent recent articles about public speaking hidden in magazines you likely never have ever heard of (or seen). But you can find the full-text for them for free in the PubMed Central (PMC) database from the U. S. National Library of Medicine, which has 6.7 million articles. When I searched there under the phrase “public speaking” I found a gigantic haystack with 3502 articles, which I sorted by Pub Date to show the most recent first. Adding the word PowerPoint reduced that down to a manageable 86.
Yesterday I blogged about the first article on that list, in a post titled Giving an Effective Medical Lecture. Today I will discuss the 23rd article which is by Wendy H. Vogel and Pamela Hallquist Viale and is titled Presenting with Confidence. It appears in the Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology on July-August 2018 Volume 9, No. 5. Pages 545 to 548.
Sections in it are titled:
Fear of Public Speaking
High-Level Tips
Developing Slides
Keeping the Audience’s Interest
Conclusion
Tables are titled:
Tips for giving a bad presentation
What to know about your audience
Examples of impactful openings
PowerPoint tips
Handling questions from your audience
Resources for presenters
Under High Level Tips they mention:
“The first tip is to know your subject and know it well. In fact, should your audio-visual equipment malfunction (and if you speak often enough, this is likely to happen), you should have your presentation memorized. However, it is a good idea to make a hard copy of your slides and use them in case of equipment failure.”
But I don’t think you ever should try to memorize (word for word). After an equipment malfunction you will have less than the expected time to present, and need to be able to adapt on the fly.
The image was adapted from a cartoon at Wikimedia Commons about a businesswoman presenting a line graph.
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