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4.9 The Keogh Lab 
Some dos and don'ts of giving a good 15 minute talk by Scott 
Keogh 
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Do keep the message of your talk very simple, have only a few main 
points.  
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Do think and plan carefully about the structure of your talk - make 
sure it follows a logical progression.  
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Do be very prepared for your talk, practice, practice, practice.  
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Do plan on about four minutes each for intro, materials and methods, 
and results/discussion.  
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Do plan on about one slide per minute.  
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Do speak slowly and clearly.  
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Do have a joke or two ready if you are feeling confident, people like to 
laugh but be prepared to go on if they don't.  
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Do have very good text slides, keep them simple.  
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Do have good study species slides, at least 20% of total slide 
number.  
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Do have conclusions slides.  
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Do make sure that the people in the back of the room can see what's 
on your slides/overheads  

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Do state your aims clearly and explain WHY you have done the 
research.  
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Do try to reach as wide an audience as possible and reflect this 
attitude in the way you present statistics and complicated results.  
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Do make sure that every slide/overhead means something. 
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Don't read your talk if you can help it. If you are well prepared and 
have practiced you won't have to.  
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Don't use a laser pointer until you have practiced using one, be slow 
and deliberate with your movements or it annoys everybody.  
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Don't apologise for mistakes in your slides, just explain.  
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Don't show complicated tables or DNA sequences - tables are death. 
If you have to show tables, keep them very simple and only show the 
data that you are actually going to talk about.  
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Don't ever start explaining a slide by saying "I know you can't read 
this but....".  
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Don't go overtime, it's disrespectful to everyone and unprofessional.  
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Don't ever say "Now this is really interesting.....", just make it self-
evident.  
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Don't mix slides and overheads to much - try and have one or the 
other, preferably slides.  
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Don't use more than three colours, and make sure they are highly 
contrasting.  
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Don't say "that's it" at the end, have an ending prepared.  
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Don't say "more work is required" because it always is.  
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Don't show raw data.  
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Don't go too much into well known methods.  
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Don't use the shadow of the pointer unless you say that's what you're 
doing.