I have delt with many scholars in the past, and believe me, even they hate to read slides full of words. Then who else love to read tons of words in the dark which can easily put you into sleep mode? My mind will always wonder away when the speaker gives me a plain slides with just words. My tip is to use only the key words, or key phrases, use less sentence is you can. The slides are there to give people a focal point, a scene to look at, but they are not the audio output. Think your slides as TV, do you want to have eye-catching pictures, appealing figures to show the data or findings, or you just want to have screen with subtitle? The narrator is the speaker, who has to convey ideas and messages.
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What you said is absolutely true. Another thing I noticed is if the slides are too busy your audience will tend to read the slides instead of listening to you.
That's so true, Maha. I think the slides are meant to only give a guidline for your talk, not the talk.
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