Why presentation skills are important

Presentation skills are important to your academic and professional career, and will usually affect your ability to be hired for a job. Certainly, being able to list conference presentations on your CV is something you will want to be able to do. Fear of presenting is normal. Don't compound the fear by worrying about the fear. One thing you can do to manage that feeling is to focus on the aspects you can control.

Preparing for the Talk S. Joseph Levine's (2005) Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation (Free ebook). Geoff Pullum's (2005) Five Golden Rules for Giving Academic Presentations. Principles of bad and good talks; concrete steps you can employ, in Paul N. Edwards' (2004) How to Give an Academic Talk [PDF]. A great source of information for help on everything from oral presentations to conference presentations and creating slide presentations is A postgraduate's rough guide to academic conference speaking by Dave Sayers.

Where can you present? The LINGUIST List maintains an up-to-the-minute listing of Linguistics Conferences around the world, and another for Calls for Papers. Browse current Conferences to find some you might like to attend. Next, look at Calls for Papers to see whether you might be able to submit one for the conference of your choice. For really quick reference, check our Events Calendar. Organizing a conference? See how our abstract submission and review facility Easy Abs will make your job much easier.

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