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Yesterday, my inbox had a lovely note from the PNSQC folks saying that my abstract is accepted. Immediate freaking out and some really bad cube-dancing commenced. I was already committed to turning out a really great thesis over this summer, and now I’ll be turning out a really great thesis that people will possibly read! The conference folks still have to approve my final paper, so my presentation will be pending their approval. I was looking a little more thoroughly at the conference web-site. It turns out that even if your paper is accepted, your peers will GRADE your prezo with a red, yellow or green card. Jeez!
All freaking out aside, what a great validation of my topic. Any tips for presenting or paper writing? God, I love Portland!
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Yes! I am so excited to hear this Marlena! I’ll be preparing mine as well.
So, since my first paper was last year, here are my tips:
1. Make sure that since this is a technical paper that you are using references to established scientific work that exists to prove your point.
2. A model, diagram, or illustratrion is always a helpful thing to add.
3. Of course you want to have an introduction, a body, and a really tight summary.
4. Before you submit it, have a few different people review it! I volunteer of course.
5. Remember that this conference is different. Leave lots of time for questions because the audience is awesome. Also, you want to give your work one last critical eye and think “What are the KEY takeaways that they can apply right when they get back? Did I make those stand out enough?”
6. And lastly, practice practice. You want to do enough practice runs that when you are there giving the presentation you can focus on the content and not your nerves and so that you can really enjoy it! Yay! We both got in!