What is it about?
Get out of dry academic mode and embrace your inner storyteller. Rediscover the heart of your research, and your passion for it. Crack the scriptwriting code, and absorb some basic performance craft. Get the knack of connecting with an audience. Become more self-aware. Read this article.
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Why is it important?
Research pitching competitions like 3MT have proliferated in recent years, yet advice to prospective contestants about how to prepare for one have remained basic, superficial and largely unchanged - minimally adapted from the kinds of generic advice given for any kind of public talk. This article identifies the specific performative requirements for successful pitching, and provides practical guidelines designed to enable contestants to structure and script an effective pitch, and present it with confidence and audience impact.
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This article synthesises insights from two main career trajectories, as a higher education learning and teaching academic, and as a professional playwright and theatre director.
Dr Peter A. J. Copeman
University of Canberra
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This page is a summary of: Three Minute Theatre, International Journal for Researcher Development, May 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijrd-09-2014-0028.
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