How to Turn a Research Article into a PowerPoint Presentation – Recorded livestream demonstration
Channel: Monika Wahi
Date: 21/05/2022

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This livestream where epidemiologist and data scientist Monika Wahi demonstrated how to turn a research article into a Powerpoint presentation was originally broadcast on May 21, 2022.
Topics covered:
👩‍🏫 How to make a template to start a presentation
👩‍🏫 How to choose style options in PowerPoint
👩‍🏫 How to go through the published article, pick out the important parts, put them on the slide, and summarize them.
👩‍🏫 Tips and tricks for preparing and doing the presentation delivery.
Link to demonstration article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/23333936211073116 

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I listed the links I mention below as they come up in the livestream. Enjoy!
04:17 Beginning of livestream. Explanation of the type of presentation we are making.
05:38 Definition of “research” structure: background, research aims/hypothesis, methods, results, and discussion/conclusion.
07:30 Why are so many research presentations boring, when research itself is interesting? Because we can’t wait for the results and discussion part!
09:35 When low-quality articles get published, it is a challenge to turn them into a presentation.
12:06 Two formats of abstracts: Structured and unstructured
12:53 Why you need the whole article, and not just the abstract, when preparing your presentation.
14:00 Different strategy for making 5-minute presentations vs. 20 to 30 minute presentations
15:18 Different ways to present quantitative vs. qualitative methods
13:36 Put tables, figures, and any other “pictures” or images in the results section
18:13 Challenges in choosing what to present in the results of a quantitative study
19:13 How to think about what to choose to report from the discussion. Consider your audience!
20:32 Where Monika teaches her customers to put the research aim, and where to put  the answer to their research aim
21:56 Introduction to PowerPoint, and why Monika recommends it for presentations
25:14 Demonstration of choosing “slide layout” appropriate to slide
26:54 Configuring the “slide master”
29:03 Why Monika prefers editing the master herself to choosing a design
29:32 How to insert a picture for background on every slide
30:30 How to change the color palette
31:46 How to handle references/citations in a presentation
32:30 How to think about the relationship between the amount of time you are presenting and the number of slides you choose to present
34:06 Before you make the slide presentation, decide: How long do you want to talk? And what points do you want to get through to the audience?
35:00 How to block out time in the presentation
36:35 Beginning of blocking out the presentation in PowerPoint
39:30 How to block the results section
43:17 Demonstration of how to summarize the conceptual framework on a slide
45:20 How to do citations and references in a presentation, along with tips on configuration and formatting
48:26 The difference between reading about research, and learning about it through a presentation.
50:18 The presentation is no good if the audience does not know what it is supposed to get out of the presentation
51:57 Notes about including pictures in presentations
54:44 Got questions? Post them in the comments! Like this? Hit the like button!