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Study Guide & Strategies
Organizing and presenting
classroom project
Basic elements of presentations:
- Basic goals of your
presentation
Develop your presentation's topic to a few main ideas
- Audience characteristics and
knowledge base
Cover mutual ground as a starting point
Compare and adapt the presentation's goals with the interests of
the audience
- Thesis statement
State where you are going and what you will prove
- Argument
Convince them with facts and logic
- Review and summary when
complete;
Summarize what you've told them
Check for comprehension
- Questions and discussion
Practice by rehearsing the
presentation,
recording it, or reciting it to a few friends
Techniques of delivery:
- Put your audience at ease with a
relevant anecdote or joke,
or get their attention with a dramatic gesture or event...
- Use personal pronouns in your
delivery;
- Make eye contact with the
audience;
- Present your report with a
conversational voice though vary it for emphasis;
- Use transitions to signal the
audience you're moving to a new idea;
- Direct questions to your audience
to get them more involved;
- Conclude by summing up your main
ideas, points, or arguments;
- Leave time for questions, and
invite feedback on
- the content (un-addressed,
related ideas)
- the conclusions
- your manner of presentation
- Leave your contact information
(business card) for further questions
Using visual aids
or media:
- Call early and make sure hardware
is compatible with your software;
and software versions of your documents are compatible with
versions of their software
- Have several versions of
computerized files (on your hard drive, disk, web site, and
overhead and/or paper(!) just in case
- Come early and make sure
everything works and that any media (audio, visual, computer) can
be seen, heard, understood by all
- Keep all visual materials simple
in large text for visibility
- Have supportive materials for each
idea
- Do not distribute handouts, even
outlines, before your speech (or the audience will focus on the
reading material instead of listening to you)
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