Audience and context

Colour palette

Number of citations

Slide count

Introduce entirely new material

Summarise your key points and suggest next steps or implications

Re-read your introduction verbatim

Include irrelevant jokes to lighten the mood

Random clip-art and loud colours

Dense paragraphs and tiny fonts

 Clean layout, readable fonts and meaningful visuals

No headings or structure

It helps you time your talk and familiarise yourself with content

It avoids any chance of improvisation

You should not look at your slides at all

You should memorise every word

It is the longest part of the talk

It allows audience engagement and clarifies points raised

It is when you show all your references again

It’s optional and not recommended

The cost of the equipment

How many people will sleep in the audience

Only your own slides

Your audience, their needs and their level of knowledge

With detailed technical definitions

With the main ideas before introduction and conclusion

With a joke to engage the audience

After the conclusion

Making eye contact with the audience

Using a wireless presenter remote

Speaking too fast or without pausing

Practising ahead of time

On one slide and follow the correct format for each entry

In a font smaller than readable size

Hidden so the audience can’t judge your work

Omitted if you only have one source

Author’s surname and year of publication

Only the author’s first nam

Full URL in every slide

No mention of source at all