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Chapter 1 Introduction

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In terms of hours spent, scientific presentations are costly. Even for presentations given on site, the audience members devote valuable time to attend, and the speakers give up valuable time to prepare and deliver. For presentations that require travel, the costs rise dramatically.

Although expensive, scientific presentations are important. The information communicated in presentations is often only a few days old, sometimes only a few hours old. Conversely, the information in a professional journal at publication is typically a few months old. For some areas of science and engineering, advances occur so often that scientists and engineers cannot wait for a publication cycle to learn the latest news. For instance, at Pratt & Whitney, the principal means of communicating new advances about gas turbine engines is not documents, but presentations.

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Alley, M. (2013). Chapter 1 Introduction. In: The Craft of Scientific Presentations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8279-7_1

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