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 presentation.

My discussion presumes that you are preparing apresentation based on your technical paper.

If this is not the situation, there are still manyguidelines that apply.

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What’s your point…your core message?

Why does it matter?

you wan your au ence o remem er on y onething, what do you want that to be?

Write down your answers, and be specific.

You will compose your presentation to convey thiscore message.

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,topics you want to cover in your presentation.

A suggestion is to review the headings of yourpaper that might be suitable.

Next, determine the main points that you want todiscuss.

REMEMBER: You only have enough time to discussa few topics.

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 legible several rows from the screen.

Keep the images simple.Photo ra hs must be hi h enou h resolution sothey are clear when displayed.

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,technique where you shape your presentation bysketching it out.

This doesn’t mean you have to be an artist and.

Use the form that suits you best, whether it’s with alegal pad and a pencil or pen or on the computer.

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.essence of an issue, you want to be clear and to thepoint.

Use plenty of empty space.

Place only a few elements on a slide.

Eliminate non-essential elements.

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’,points.

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,multiple slides.

This approach helps the audience understand yourinformation more quickly.

Now, let’s talk about bullets in slides.

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 bullets.

Bulleted slides should be rare. Use visualrepresentation instead.

People remember visual images better thanbullet points.

Talk to your slides, your notes can include bullet

po n s, so can your an ou s, u re uce e rpresence on your slides.

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• Maximum of three lines of text

• Maximum of six words per line

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 presentation.

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 important points.

You won’t feel pressured to include everythingabout your topic in your presentation.

Handouts can be your abstract or technical paper,or your presentation with detailed notes when thereis no required technical paper.

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’was given at the 2010 World Oil HP/HT Drilling andCompletions Conference.

I will comment on it to illustrate a few points.

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’background information.

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This is what ou often see: a ra hic andmultiple bullet points with lots of words.

Text in the image is too small.

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Taking the first material that needed to be covered,

here’s the first image.You really don’t even need the bullets, as you cantalk to this. BUT, if you really prefer to have a fewbullets, then at least make them concise.

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There’s no reason we can’t give it a more image-

oriented appearance, when possible.

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,appealing to the eye.

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 presentation, let me summarize a few key points.

Determine our Core Messa e and work to convethis in your presentation.

Produce slides that are NOT complicated orcluttered.

Try to use visual images instead of bullets.