If you have 1 slide in a 3 minute presentation about your work, which is on a poster at a conference, how are these presentations usually formatted? Do you focus on the results or just introduce your work?
Hi Stephanie, the slide should contain little information:
- Top : Title/author (highlight first name)
- Left : ('Problem') Nice color photo highlighting the general problem. Below: one short sentence explaining the society problem (A) (e.g. climate change increase poverty), one short sentence explaining your scientific issue/hypothesis (B) . (Oral presentation : 1 min)
- Center : a nice color photo of your experiments (samples, methods...). Below: 1-2 short sentence of experimental work. (Oral presentation: 1 min)
- Right: ('Solution') Simple color graph (trend, curve...) showing the major result. Below: a short sentence explaining the meaning (interpretation) or novelty of this result (this is the answer to B). Then a short sentence explaining the 'potential' interest, or benefit for the society problem (this is the response to A). (Oral presentation: 1 min).
Eric
Chief Editor, author of Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals
in addition to my previous suggestions you may find some inspiration on 'how to communicate' by reading our journal blog here: http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/agronomy-blog/