Oral presentations

General resources

• Communication (general)

  • Presentation skills 

  • Pronunciation basics (particularly word and sentence stress)

• Visual aids

Presentation skills

Please use these slides as notes, and not as models for slide design!

Presentations 1:

• Handling nervousness

• Questions to consider: the 5 Ws

• Talk preparation: the 5 stages

Presentations 2:

• Structuring your presentation

• Using cue cards

Presentations 3:

• Important elements of oral communication

• Body language

• Use of the voice

• Visual aids

• Questions

• Timing

• What to do if things go wrong

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Avoiding Death by Powerpoint

These are the slides I use for my workshop on slide design. Open to see my notes. Remember that in academic presentations, the same rules of citation apply.

Be careful about copyright infringement when using images and other media in your slides. Use Creative Commons licensed images, or those you created yourself.

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Recording your presentation

This is a good way of sharing your presentation online, and also very useful if you want to watch yourself as part of practice or rehearsal. Use one of these free tools which allow you to record your video/audio as you show your slides:

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