Enough is enough

10 Things To Do For Ensuring a Boring Conference Paper Presentation:

1. Read from your paper.
2. Use pedantic phrases like ”Several scholars have argued.”
3. Read out loud things that are already written on your slides as part of your visual presentation.
4. Never include the personal dimension, or adopt a conversational tone (e.g. I did this, if you ask me, etc).
5. Make it obvious when you are changing slides (includes telling someone else to do the job)
6. Try to continue when the moderator tells you that your time is about to be over.
7. Make sure that the content of your talk sticks firmly to that of the written paper, which you have previously submitted to the conference.
8. Use only images and text on your slides.
9. Include on your slides text that is larger than a few lines long block-quote.
10. Only inform, and give an account of matters. Never criticize, interpret or make projections for the future.