![]() ![]() If literature reviews are boring to read in papers, they are insanely boring to listen to during presentations.” Marc Bellemare takes an even stronger stance: “Never, ever have a literature review in your slides. For some types of discussants, it may help to include them, even if they don’t meet the other criteria. If you do it at all, choose only the papers that you are either going to build on in a major way or contradict. Conversely, if it’s the model that’s more important, the empirical results will come later and you can just give the very brief highlights that bolster the key points. If the results are your focus (usually the case for us), give the audience a sense of how the model is set up, and what the main implications are as they pertain to the results you will show. Then trim the other one down to one slide, max. So the first thing to do is to figure out which is more important to get across – your model or your empirical results. Deciding on your narrative will help with the discipline in the points that follow.Ī model or results? Even if your audience is all academics, you don’t have academic seminar time. What is the main story you are trying to tell with this paper? Fifteen minutes works better for communicating a narrative then for taking an audience through every twist and turn of your econometric grandeur. Of course, the first time through the presentation it may take a bit longer than you will when you present, but if you have any doubts, practice again (bringing your prep time to a whopping 30 minutes plus a little bit). Running through it once in advance can reveal to you – wow! – that it’s actually a 25-minute talk and you need to cut a bunch. This is the great thing about a 15-minute talk: You can actually afford to run through it, out loud. But if you have more than 15 slides, then #2 is doubly important. This isn’t a FedEx commercial!) There is no magic number of slides since the content you’ll have and how you talk will vary. No amount of speed talking will get you through this in anything resembling coherence. One recent presentation one of us saw had 52 slides for 15 minutes. That’s not enough time to use the slides you used for that recent 90-minute academic seminar. ![]() Given that many conferences ask researchers to summarize their work in 15 to 20 minutes, we thought we’d reflect on some ideas for how to do this, and – more importantly – how to do it well.
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