About this design
Where the Research Paper style comes from, and what it signals.
With Research Paper you set up a journal club presentation as a marked-up reprint. Everything from the paper, its title, abstract, figures and captions, appears in STIX Two Text, the serif a consortium of scientific publishers developed for journals. Your reading goes on in red pen: underline a passage, tag it with a letter and answer it in the margin column, so the room can tell the authors' claims from your critique.
The six slides run in the order most journal clubs use: the citation, the abstract on one slide, PICO beside the trial flow, the key figure, a risk-of-bias table and your questions for the authors. The signature is the figure slide, where you redraw the chart with confidence intervals and mark it up with a red bracket and a loose circle. A running head holds the short citation and the footer holds the DOI.
The palette is white #ffffff, ink #15181d, body gray #3b4048 and one red, #b3261e, kept for your marks. Green #3f7d4e and amber #c98a00 appear in the risk-of-bias circles and nowhere else. Pick it for any research paper presentation where you critique someone else's work, from medical journal clubs to lab meetings.
Use it for
- Medical and residency journal clubs that appraise a trial with PICO and risk of bias
- Lab meeting paper presentations in biology, psychology or public health
- Graduate reading groups where each student presents one published paper
- Evidence-based medicine teaching sessions on critical appraisal
- Peer review training, where you walk a group through a manuscript's weak points
Skip it for
- Presenting your own dissertation to a committee; Thesis Defense tracks your chapters and research questions
- Reporting your own lab's experiments; Stanford Style frames the problem and credits the team
- Case presentations about a single patient; Grand Rounds covers clinical cases and lab values
The presentation design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Research Paper' theme, a journal club deck that presents one published paper as a reader's marked-up copy. Background: white (#ffffff); panels #f2f3f5, rules 1px #d5d8dd, square corners. Typography: 'STIX Two Text' (Google Fonts), 600 for slide titles at 24 to 28px and the paper's title at 34 to 38px, 400 for everything quoted from the paper at 12 to 16px, line-height 1.45. 'Libre Franklin' 400/600 is the presenter's voice: labels, axes, tables and notes at 11 to 13px. Ink #15181d for headings, #3b4048 for body, #6c727c for supporting text. The signature is the red pen: #b3261e marks the presenter's reading and nothing else. When a slide quotes the paper, underline the key passage with a 2px #b3261e underline and a small bold superscript letter (a, b, c). A 220px right margin column behind a 1px #d5d8dd rule answers each letter with a short note in Libre Franklin italic 13px #b3261e. Running head on every content slide: the short citation (author et al., year, italic journal abbreviation, volume, pages) left in 12px STIX #6c727c, the journal club date right, over a 1px rule. Footer: the DOI bottom-left and slide number bottom-right in 10px #6c727c above a 1px rule. Title slide: journal name and issue in STIX italic, the paper's full title as the headline, authors with superscript affiliation numbers, a 'Cite as' block on #f2f3f5 with a 3px #15181d left border and a hanging-indent reference; the margin says why the group reads it and who presents. Abstract slide: the structured abstract with bold run-in heads (Background, Methods, Findings, Interpretation). Methods slide: PICO as four rows with large serif initials beside a redrawn CONSORT flow diagram in 1px ink boxes. Figure slide: the paper's key figure redrawn in ink #15181d and gray #8a9099 (dashed comparator) with 95% CI whiskers and direct labels, no gridlines, a caption opening with bold 'Fig. 2 |' that says it was redrawn. The presenter draws on top in red pen: a bracket for an effect size, a loose circle around the weak point. Critique slide: a Cochrane RoB 2 table, a row per domain, a 22px circle per judgement (+ low risk #3f7d4e, ? some concerns #c98a00, - high risk #b3261e), one line of reasoning, an overall row below a 1px ink rule. Closing slide: 'What I would ask the authors', each question in STIX 16px tagged with its page, table or registry source; the margin gives the bottom line for the group's practice. Report effect sizes with confidence intervals, not p-values alone. Strictly avoid: highlighter yellow, red on anything the presenter did not mark, logos of real journals or publishers, photos, icons, gradients, drop shadows, rounded cards, centered body text, bullet walls, tracked all-caps labels, invented results attributed to the real paper. Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHub
How to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Research Paper deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Research Paper on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Research Paper presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Research Paper presentation design prompt in practice.
