Verbal Sticks and Rhetorical Stones: Improving Conference Presentations in Political Science

In: PS: political science & politics, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 583-588

Abstract

AbstractWe provide advice to presenters at political science conferences. Our
advice is based on the idea that the goal of a professional
presentation is to provide an audience with information it can
understand, discuss, and remember. We argue that current
presentational norms in our discipline are counterproductive, and we
encourage presenters to make their presentations more constrained,
less technical, and more connected to the political world outside of
political science.