How to give a good talk?

Why do we need to give a good talk?

To effectively communicate your work and promote yourself, motivate people to cite your work. Not  only for researchers, but also students, faculty, company workers. 

What is the good talk? 

Good talk has some important features, such as good story telling, good design, compelling, logical. 

The basic story

1. motivation and problem

2. the development of approach

3. conclusion and future work

The outline of story

1. motivation

2. problem statement

3. related work

4. our approach

5. results

6. conclusion

7. future work

How to give a good talk? 

Good story-telling

Know your audience

Design one story with one key idea

The elements should help develop the story

Think more on audience, so as to make excellent story.

Keep consistent for font, expression, color, etc.

Conclusion

This is brief summary of how to give a good talk. The key idea is to make good story telling. Hope it helpful for the people who need.

From: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~hertzman/courses/gradSkills/2010/