Unit 8
Presentations
What is a Presentation?
• A Presentation is a formal discussion of your project that is given to
an audience.
• A Presentation may follow the same format as your essay, however, it
will be much-abbreviated.
• A Presentation is not reading your paper. It is an oral discussion of key
points.
• You can think of it more like a detailed outline.
Step 1: Attention Grabber “Hook”
• Use a Hook similar to the one in your paper to draw the attention of
your audience. Many presentations begin with a joke or a short
story/anecdote or a summation of memorable facts.
• Introduce yourself.
• Introduce your topic.
• Set a tone that you can carry through the presentation.
• Tone is the engagement of your excitement, your expertise, and your
personality as presented to your audience.
Step 2: The Body
• Much like your essay, it is important that you organize your key points. Go
through your paper and highlight your topic sentences and key examples.
• Structure your presentation by pacing a similar amount of time to discuss each
topic.
• Time yourself and practice refining the most important aspects of these topics.
• Use examples! Remember to be specific, and if you start with a general topic,
progress into more specific topics. Specific examples are key to creating a relevant
and memorable presentation for your audience.
• Give credit to your sources. Information comes from research. You can set up
examples like this: “According to __(person&title)___ from
__(organizations/publication/place)___, who said in _(year)__ etc.”
• And then…tie your research to your expertise by making connections between
your research and your opinion and your examples.
• In this way, you present yourself as the expert.
Step 3: The Conclusion
• Use energy to wrap up the presentation.
• Restate your main points and your main results.
• Explain again to the audience why this subject was so important to
you.
• Make your audience want to learn more.
Use Signal Phrases and Transitions
• Introduce the topic
• This presentation will investigate/ examine/ identify/ the effects of ... My
topic today is ...
The topic I intend to discuss is ...
Our team/group will be discussing ...
• Provide an outline of the presentation
• I want to start by ..., and then I’ll ...
Let’s begin by ... , before looking at ...
I’m going to divide this talk into three parts.
There a four main points I’d like to discuss: X, Y, Z and A. The effects of ...
will be shown by a comparison of x and y.
• Study Tips: Oral presentations - signals and transitions (November 2014). Study and Learning
Center. RMIT University . Retrieved from:
[Link]
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Use Signal Phrases and Transitions
• Language for the body of an oral presentation
• Introduce a main point
• A major concern is ...
The crux of the matter ... Fundamentally ...
The central problem is that ... A basic point was ...
A significant issue has been ...
• Move to another main point
• Now let's consider ...
I'd like to move on to/look at ... If I could now turn to ...
My next point is ...
Now, turning to ...
Now what about ...
Let me move on to ...
• Study Tips: Oral presentations - signals and transitions (November 2014). Study and Learning Center. RMIT University . Retrieved
from: [Link]
Use Signal Phrases and Transitions
• Introduce an example
• Let me illustrate this by ...
A case in point is ...
Take the case of ...
This is illustrated by. ..
This is demonstrated by ...
Include summaries before moving on to another point
• So, that's the general picture for X, now let's look at Y That
completes my overview of X, so now I'd like to move on to Y...
• Study Tips: Oral presentations - signals and transitions (November 2014). Study and Learning Center. RMIT
University . Retrieved from:
[Link]
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