Presenting Your Work

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1. Presenting and
   Writing about
   Your Work
   Yesenia Perez-Cruz— June 8, 2017
   

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2. The Great Discontent— September, 2014
   

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4. ● We all have valuable knowledge to
   share
   ● Speaking and writing help you learn
   to craft an argument
   ● Articulating your ideas helps you
   question and refine them
   ● Researching talk content helps you
   learn new things
   Reasons to
   share your
   work
   

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5. ● I want to write more.
   ● I want to get more comfortable
   presenting work.
   ● I need help picking topics.
   ● How do you craft a narrative?
   ● What are some low impact, quick
   ways to write and present?
   Survey
   Results
   

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6. 1. Finding Topics
   2. Writing about your work
   3. Finding a narrative
   4. Presenting work
   Agenda
   

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7. Finding Topics
   

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8. 1. Talk about what you know
   2. Talk about what you’d like to know
   3. Talk about what you’ve done recently
   Finding a
   topic
   

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9. A popular or
   controversial
   topic
   Your niche
   or unique
   angle
   

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10. “Think about what you love, where you come
    from, where you are, what you do, what you
    wish you were doing, and what makes you
    special. Come up with a spread of information
    that answers these questions.
    At the intersection of all these things you will
    find your strongest topic.”
    —Rachel Nabors “Finding Your Killer Talk Idea”
    Finding your
    angle
    

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11. Design
    systems
    What you love, where you come from, where you
    are, what you do, what you wish you were doing,
    and what makes you special.
    Visual
    design
    Responsible
    design
    Leading with
    empathy
    PHL & PR Inclusion
    

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12. Case
    study
    

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13. Quick points on
    a single topic
    https://una.im
    

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14. Show your
    process
    

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15. What went
    wrong?
    

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16. Vet your topic
    

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17. Start with the lowest barrier
    to entry
    

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18. Writing is cheaper and
    less time-consuming than
    giving a talk.
    

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19. I gauge interest to
    a blog post with a
    tweet
    And turn popular
    blog posts into
    talks.
    

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21. 1. How can we help each other come
    up with topics to write or speak
    about?
    2. Any questions on how to find a
    topic?
    Finding
    topics
    

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22. Writing about
    your work
    

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23. 1. Getting started
    2. Time blocking
    3. Editing
    4. Proof-reading
    Writing about
    your work
    

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25. Getting started is
    the hardest part.
    

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26. What are the main takeaways
    for this piece?
    

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27. Shitty first drafts
    

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28. Shitty first
    drafts
    “So I'd start writing without reining
    myself in. It was almost just typing, just
    making my fingers move. And the writing
    would be terrible. I'd write a lead
    paragraph that was a whole page, even
    though the entire review could only be
    three pages long…”
    —Anne Lamott “Bird by Bird”
    

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30. Editing &
    Proofreading
    1. Second draft: start to figure out the
    narrative and pacing
    2. Share with an editor for feedback on
    flow and narrative
    3. Third draft
    4. Proofread and gather assets
    

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31. Finding a Narrative
    

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32. Hook
    Point 1
    Point 2
    Point 3
    Conclusion
    Punch/ Attention Getter
    Recap/Call-to-action/Bigger idea
    

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33. https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks
    

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34. Hook
    Problem
    Cause
    Solution
    Conclusion
    Punch/ Attention Getter
    What is the problem? Who does it
    affect? Why is it important?
    What causes this problem?
    How are you going to solve this
    problem? How do you know this
    solution works?
    Recap/Call-to-action/Bigger idea
    

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35. Hook
    

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36. Problem
    

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37. Cause
    

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38. Solution
    

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39. Conclusion
    

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40. Experiment with narratives and
    find what works for the story that
    you’re telling
    

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41. Presenting Work
    

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42. 1. Set the stage
    2. Sell the benefits of the work
    3. Guide the feedback
    Presenting
    your work
    

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43. Setting the stage
    

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44. 1. What are you reviewing?
    2. What is new or how has it changed
    since the last time they saw it?
    3. Why were these decisions made?
    4. What do you need from them?
    (Feedback, approval?)
    5. What they should expect from you
    next and when
    Setting the
    stage
    https://twitter.com/sophshepherd/status/803338955181658112
    

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45. Sell the benefits of the work
    

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46. 1. What problem does it solve?
    2. How does it affect the user?
    3. Why is it better than the alternative?
    Selling the
    benefits of
    the work
    

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47. Guide the feedback
    

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48. 1. What type of feedback are you
    looking for? (UX, visuals, content,
    etc?)
    2. Ask prompting questions
    Guide the
    feedback
    

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