Saturday, June 28, 2025

Using SCISPACE to create a presentation from a PDF journal paper or book chapter

https://scispace.com/

My attempt: 

- book chapter: a chapter from Corbett's Intercultural Approach to ELT

OUTPUT: 

A presentation in PDF which summarises the main points of the chapter: 

https://scispace.com/slides/untitled-paper-p-ja7igq33kh

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MY OBSERVATIONS

- The resulting presentation consists of slides each of which is bullet point list. 

- Just a summary. No design for a realtime presentation (eg., use of a question to stimulate thinking; inclusion of visuals)

- Some figures in the original chapter are presented as individual slides in the resulting presentation PDF. 

- Unfortunately, in terms of formatting, the resulting presentation PDF, when turned into a microsoft powerpoint, will not conform to the right layout. 

- Bottomline: 

    - Useful if the purpose is to get the main points of (parts of) a paper/book chapter; 

    - May choose some of the resulting slides to highlight/present some major ideas from the paper/book chapter. 

    - Not ideal for a fully-fledged presentation. 

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