A presentation is much more than a series of slides; it's a performance on stage. For more than two decades, the author has observed himself and other academics presenting their research results. The first realisation is that there are many forms of visual aids for presentations besides slides, such as handouts and posters, that can be helpful. But there is a more important realisation: all depends on the presenter's style. This book synthesises these observations into an agile compendium aimed at early-career researchers, university students and high school pupils in their final stages of their school journey.

Federico Gobbo is a full professor at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in Interlinguistics and Esperanto, and holds a PhD in Computer Science. He gave many presentations in academia during his career on topics such as the philosophy of AI, whistled languages, and the art of language construction between naturalness and artificiality. This experience led him to present to diverse academic audiences, from software engineers to historians of esotericism. Regardless of the discipline, presenting in academia has its own hidden rules, which this book reveals.