By now, you should have chosen a paper to focus on, studied it carefully, and read one or more of the preceding papers and ones that build on your chosen paper. The next step is to prepare, and give, a short presentation about this paper and its context.
Before starting to prepare your own presentation, you should:
You will notice the advice is not entirely consistent - you will have to decide for yourself whose advice to follow!
If you read Swedish, "Praktisk Retorik" by Göran Hägg is heartily recommended. This isn't particularly focussed on technical presentations, but it is both hugely enjoyable to read, and hugely influential on all presentations you will make afterwards! The paperback version is out of print, but it is available as an e-book.
Prepare a fifteen minute presentation to explain the key idea of the paper you have chosen. Make sure you include in your talk a brief discussion of the papers that came before and after the one you are presenting, to set it in context. Your presentation should be aimed at an audience of your peers - your fellow students on the Master's programme. You will be giving your presentation to a small group, but you should prepare slides suitable for a large room - i.e. without too much information on each slide, and using fonts larger than the default (in Powerpoint, use a minimum font size of 20 point, preferably 24 point). The first slide of your presentation should include the title of the paper you are presenting, your name, your email address, and the room and time slot you have booked to give your talk (see below). The last slide of your presentation should include references to all of the papers you refer to in the talk. (This last slide is just for reference - you don't have to present it, and the font size doesn't matter).
Fifteen minutes is quite a short time to present a paper - you will need to be ruthless in deciding what to include and what to exclude. Make sure you practice your talk with a stopwatch, so you can be certain you can give it within the time limit.
Your slides should be prepared as either a Powerpoint presentation, or as a PDF file that can be displayed full-screen.
Don't forget to book a presentation slot (more details will follow later).
You are expected to give your presentation to a small group of fellow students. Each presentation will be part of a two-hour session consisting of up to five presentations. You are expected to attend the entire session that your presentation is a part of (and you are welcome to attend other sessions). There will be time for feedback after each presentation.
Submit your presentation slides through the Fire submission system. The deadline is 23:59 on Monday 24 September, no matter when your presentation slot is.