38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology

August 7-11, 2005  Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A
   

A good scientific researcher needs to be a good communicator

Alejandra Bravo
Instituto de Biotechnologia/UNAM, Cuernavaca Mexico

One of the most important aspects of being a scientific researcher is to communicate your ideas and conclusions in a clear form, either written or orally. Therefore, training in these aspects is very important. In this presentation I will give my experience about how I learned to give scientific presentations of my data. The basic point in planning a presentation is to know what you want to communicate, and to know which type of audience will be listening. Then I can list a few key points in performing a presentation:
1.- Organize a complete history that best describes the data and ideas to be presented.
2.- Prepare clear figures without too much text. All figures have a purpose then include only those that are essential for your dissertation.
3.- End with a clear conclusion that the audience could acquire and remember for a long time.

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