Presenting and Writing about your Research
Day 1 | Focus on Presentation Skills for Research Talks (09:00–17:00 including lunch break and coffee breaks)
In this seminar, participants will learn to develop audience-friendly research talks. Their talks will be developed to make them clear and persuasive so that audiences can better understand the content and key messages. To be persuasive, research talks need to present a clear and logical narrative, while also connnecting with audience emotions and showing speaker credibility.
The training is interactive, with skills practised through a range of short activities, building up to a short research talk.
Assignment: Participants need to prepare a short talk (6 – 8 minutes) on their research topic.
Key content
- Audience-friendly rhetoric & argumentation
- Building rapport with your audience
- Highlighting key messages
- Management of voice: intonation, pace, pausing
- Management of Body language
- Effective style and format for visuals
- Dealing with difficult questions
Day 2 | Focus on Scientific Writing too develop Clarity, Conciseness and Flow (08:30–16:30 including lunch break and coffee break)
In this seminar, you will learn techniques for writing good journal-style texts that meet publication standards of clarity. We will develop a range of writing skills to practice and improve writing techniques – techniques that help ensure clarity, conciseness and coherence.
To understand what good writing is, one needs a better knowledge of how readers read. Understanding how the brain processes written language helps to ease the job of the reader.
In this seminar, we will first gain insights into a range of principles of clear writing style. These principles will be followed by short application exercises. Then, building onto this foundation, we combine a range of techniques for writing texts that are cohesive, coherent and easy to read.
Assignment: Participants need to bring an abstract of their current research. If this is not yet possible, you can bring an abstract of your Masters thesis instead.
Key content
- Removing useless words
- Avoiding long sentences to be reader-friendly
- Working with verbs to better visualize your research findings
- Implementing ‘flow’ devices for easier reading
- Writing effective paragraphs
- Writing clear arguments
Venue
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association, Leipziger Straße 100, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany, conference room, 3rd floor.
Registration
Please register for the course by August 31, 2025 by sending an e-mail to cgde@iwh-halle.de.
The course is designed for a maximum of 12 participants. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.