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This chapter discusses what to write on your slides.
Audiences will potentially see thousands of bullets during a conference. An audience will be more attentive if they believe you have made a special effort for them to make your talk not just useful, but also interesting and entertaining: limiting the amount of text and number of bullets is a sign of such effort.
Your aim should be for the audience to quickly assimilate the information on your slides and then focus on you. The less text there is, the quicker the audience will focus on what you are saying. You will also be less tempted to “read” your slides.
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Wallwork, A. (2016). Writing the text of your slides. In: English for Presentations at International Conferences . English for Academic Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26330-4_4
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