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Conference Rules, Part 2

Everything you need to know about presenting a scholarly paper in public

Are you nervous? Good. You should be. Anxiety means you are taking the enterprise seriously and your adrenalin is flowing. Without adrenalin you will be a boring speaker.

But too much anxiety will get in the way of what you have to do; too much...

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