on how to deliver an academic paper.

[beyond_pale]

fabulous, FABULOUS how to deliver an academic paper advice to be had!!!

you are all fools if you don't peek.

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[yuxonomei]

Fabulous and oh so very true.

There's been many a night where I walk up and down reading out my paper whilst holding a stopwatch, edit, time myself reading again.

I'm going to print this out and use it as a handout for my Gothic film and lit group next term. Part of the module is giving a presentation on a Gothic/Horror film of their choice.

[eye_of_a_cat]

Good advice!

(Although, is it just my field where an inability to keep to time is the sign of a senior academic rather than a newbie? Every time I've seen someone go way over time and leave out huge chunks of their paper because the chair's pressing them to wrap it up, it's been a person with an established career and conference experience already; the PhD students tend to time themselves to the exact second beforehand, and to panic if it looks like they might go even a few seconds over their limit. Weird, that.)

[beyond_pale]

Is this the inverse of or collary to the fact that newbies tend to have 30+ page CVs, while established (and even household name) academics very often have 2-3 page CVs?

[venetia]

word - or in the worst case scenario, a senior academic taking advantage of their heavyweight status in order to read the whole thing anyway, putting the rest of the session way off schedule.

[whfs]

Additional helfpul advice on giving academic talks.