# Academic Presentations

> Plan, write, review, or improve academic presentations for thesis defenses, conferences, seminars, lab meetings, grant briefings, and research talks. Use when evidence, argument flow, citations, methods, results, and scholarly presentation quality matter. Turkish triggers: tez sunumu, akademik sunum, konferans konuşması, sunumu iyileştir.

- Skill: `yigityildiz0/academic-presentations` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yigityildiz0/academic-presentations`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yigityildiz0/academic-presentations/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Research & Search
- Author: yigityildiz0 (https://skillmd.com/u/yigityildiz0)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yigityildiz0/academic-presentations

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# Academic Presentations

Use this skill for the scholarly argument layer. Delegate file creation, rendering, and layout mechanics to the active host’s presentation capability.

## Build the argument first

1. Identify audience, time limit, decision or claim, evidence base, and institution/venue constraints.
2. Draft action titles: each title states the slide’s takeaway as a complete claim, not a topic label.
3. Run the ghost-deck test: read titles in order. They must tell a defensible argument without the speaker notes.
4. Give each results slide one primary exhibit and one explicit interpretation. Move secondary evidence to appendix.
5. Keep methods sufficient for credibility, not a transcript of the protocol.

## Academic quality checks

- Distinguish result, interpretation, limitation, and speculation.
- Cite borrowed figures, datasets, quotes, and claims on the relevant slide; include a final reference list.
- Preserve uncertainty, sample sizes, comparators, and relevant assumptions.
- End with conclusions and the next scientific question; keep Q&A material available rather than ending on an empty thank-you slide.
- Match an approved institution template when one exists; otherwise use a restrained, readable academic visual system.

## Review sequence

1. Argument and evidence review.
2. Timing review: remove material before shrinking text.
3. Accessibility review: reading order, contrast, legible type, and chart annotations.
4. Rendered visual QA using the host’s available tool.

## Guardrails

- Do not invent citations, results, statistical significance, or permissions.
- Do not convert a research talk into a decorative marketing deck.
- Keep unpublished or participant-sensitive data within the user’s authorized scope.