Presenting Your Work
Presenting Your Work

Why Are Presentation Skills Important?

Presentation skills are important to your academic and professional career and will usually affect your ability to be hired for a job. Certainly, being able to list conference presentations on your CV is something you will want to be able to do. Fear of presenting is normal. Don't compound the fear by worrying about the fear. One thing you can do to manage that feeling is to focus on the aspects you can control. We have compiled a list of some resources to help you manage that fear and to get your work published!

This free eBook, written by S Joseph Levine (2005) is a down-to-earth guide created to assist the graduate student who is about to begin writing a thesis or dissertation as the final requirement in his/her graduate degree program. This book provides many helpful ideas on crafting, implementing and defending a thesis or dissertation. It is based on the author's experience as a graduate student advisor. This book illustrates that the task of successfully completing a thesis or dissertation can be empowering and enjoyable.

This site contains a list of the best practices for giving presentations.

On academia.edu, Dave Sayers' presentation entitled the talk Learning and Teaching Unit at the University of Essex, UK on May 9, 2008 discusses how post-graduates should speak at conferences.

Monitored by the LINGUIST List editors, this site contains a list of future conferences in linguistics.

This site is also monitored by the LINGUIST List editors and this site contains up-to-date calls for papers.

This is a calendar of conferences and events going on in linguistics. Click through to find some events that fit your schedule.

Easy Abstracts (EasyAbs for short) is a FREE abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online.

This paper was written by Paul N. Edwards from the School of Information at the University of Michigan. In it he states "I wrote this essay on behalf of bored audiences everywhere."

We will distribute your announcement within 48 business hours to all the LINGUIST subscribers in many different countries. In addition, your announcement will be archived on our website.



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