Plan and build presentations for academic contexts — conference talks, thesis defenses, grant briefings, seminars — prioritizing argument structure and evidence, with a ghost-deck action-title test.
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name: Academic PPTX
description: Create or improve presentations for academic contexts — conference talks, seminar slides, thesis defenses, grant briefings, lab meetings, lectures — where the audience evaluates reasoning and evidence. Use for "conference talk", "thesis defense", "research presentation", or "make slides" combined with academic content.
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Govern the content and structure of academic decks (argument before aesthetics). This skill pairs with a PPTX-authoring skill for the technical .pptx work — read both before building.
## Workflow
1. Identify the presentation mode: Structured Argument (default for papers, defenses, grants, lab/seminar talks) or Visual/Narrative (public engagement, lay panels). When in doubt, default to Structured Argument.
2. For structured work, follow the priority order: argument structure → data → layout → aesthetics.
3. Plan the deck before creating slides — a slide-by-slide outline (title, action title, exhibit type); confirm with the user if it exceeds ~10 slides or is complex.
4. Apply the ghost-deck test: reading only the action titles in sequence must tell the complete argument; fix the outline if it doesn't.
5. Apply the skill's design standards and per-slide-type patterns, then build the .pptx via the companion PPTX skill.
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