Write a Good Title, Give a Better Talk
Channel: ESAVideos
Date: 2023-02-01

Learn to write a good title for your talk or paper in this interactive workshop with Dr. Bruce Kirchoff, the author of Presenting Science Concisely (https://presentingscienceconcisely.com/book).

Please visit his YouTube Channel for short videos on science communication (https://www.youtube.com/@sci-comm).

Introduction - 0:07
Titles should explain your main result - 0:28
First titles to evaluate - which one is best? - 2:54
How would you improve this title #1 - 7:11
How would you improve this title #2 - 8:39
What is missing from this title? - 11:38
Second titles to evaluate - which one is best? - 12:57
Under what conditions to you want the taxon name in your title? - 14:15
Taxon names when working with model systems - 18:09
Including the direction of the effect in your title - 21:01
Discussing the title "Biogeography of Penstemons" - 21:44
The structure of an abstract - 24:46
Review of participant's titles #1 - 27:36
Review of participant's titles #2 - 34:01
Review of participant's titles #3 - 36:40
Review of participant's titles #4 - 39:05
The importance of a problem statement - 42:10
Closing 44:34

Put Bruce's tips to use when you present your science at the 2023 ESA Annual Meeting in Portland! https://www.esa.org/portland2023