A lot of the principles I will be putting across will be general principles which will of course
help you with all your future presentations so first of all the most important thing to consider
is your audience and in this instance your audience are the other students in your group
there are three points to bear in mind firstly you need to ask yourself what they need to know
secondly it useful to consider whether they will be supportive or not and thirdly will it be a
small group say three or four a moderate gathering of twenty or so people as for your current
assignment or will there be hundreds of people … equally to any audience so how do you
structure your presentation right at the beginning you should tell them something that ..them
to pay attention this could be something surprising or even shocking but it needs to be…
after that you need a list of items or topics showing them what you will be covering rather like
an agenda and then the main part of the presentation will follow this main part will be the
detailed information … personal experiences after this you should summarize what you
presented and close with what I call next steps for this assignment you could simply point
the group to other …material. In other cases you may want to suggest some actions that
people can take now what about the design of the slides for your laptop well the important
thing here is to be consistent you need to have the same type of font and use the same color
and size for the same …for example all …look the same all bullet points need to be
presented in the same way and .. bring the presentation to life by adding graphics these
could be in several form such as pictures.. histograms and so on and so let's move on now
to presenting you have your presentation prepared …to start well it's important to give a
good impression from the start so take three …. look at the audience no matter how
frightening they may be and be enthusiastic and energetic as you go through the
presentation remember to provide some variety in the way you speak for example you can
talk …rapidly for information that may be familiar but then slow down for more unfamiliar
section and change your tone as you speak don't keep it at the same level all the way
through I mention look at your audience a good tip is to pick people out and look at them for
around five seconds… that you're either not interested in them or terrified of them looking
too long at one particular person may make them feel rather uncomfortable there may be
points in your presentation that you want your audience to really …and in order to make
important points stand out you may consider adding silence right after these it will give
people time to… on what you've just said also you may be presenting….ideas or technical
details but try to keep everything as simple as possible use simple words and as few as
possible and be clear so using weak verbs such as appears seems could be needs to be
avoid I'll just finish off with a few thoughts on questions and ..from the audience you may
choose to invite questions from the audience as you go or ask them to wait until the end. …
as it provides you with some feedback on how interested the audience is and how well..
when a question is asked, you need to provide an answer that is as accurate as possible
initially my tip is to repeat it this will ensure you have heard it correctly and will give you a
few seconds to gather your thoughts… it's likely however that there's something in your
presentation that's unclear or confusing so my advice is to reduce problems by reading
through your presentation beforehand and predicting potential points which could cause
interruptions you may then want to change that part of your presentation, or at least you'll be
prepared if someone does interrupt you now do you have any questions
