How to Give an

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• How to Give an
• Effective Presentation

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Effective Presentations

• Communicate arguments and ideas
• Persuade the audience they are true
• Interesting and entertaining
• CLARITY

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Steps for Giving a Successful Presentation

• Organize, practice and deliver your presentation
  with energy and enthusiasm
• Analyze your audience
• To whom are you speaking?
• What does your audience already know?
• What do they need or want to know?
• Focus on central point

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Parts of a Presentation

• The introduction sets the stage
• The middle makes the major points
• The conclusion sums up the main points and
  imparts a take home message
• "Tell them what you're gonna tell em,
  tell em, then tell em what you told em"

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Your Presentation

• The First Slide
• Title
• Your name
• Your affiliation

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• How to Give an
• Effective Presentation

Clarissa Reese, Ph.D. California
State University, San Marcos
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Your Presentation

• Introduction
• Introduce the problem. Why is it important?
• Develop the background. What has other research
  revealed about this topic?
• State the purpose of the study.
• What were the hypotheses?

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Your Presentation

• Method
• Who were your participants?
• Include information about the procedure that the
  audience needs to evaluate your results (IV, DV,
  design, etc.)

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Your Presentation

• Results (or Preliminary Results)
• What data did you analyze?
• (it should be clear where the data came from)
• What do the data tell you?
• Main points can be made with figure(s) (should
  convey information quickly with only having to
  read the legend and labels)

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Your Presentation

• Discussion
• Do your findings support your hypothesis?
• How do your results compare with other studies?
• What are the implications of your findings?
• What limitations does your study have?
• What would you suggest for future research?

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Your Presentation

• Conclusion
• The final slide should be a closing summary and
  reiterate your take home message
• Ending
• Thank You
• while making eye contact with your audience
• signals the presentation over and they can clap

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Visual Aids
A picture is worth a thousand words

• Text (intro, method, results, discussion)
• Figures
• Transitions outline slides, summary slides,
  speech markers
• Having briefly outlined past research in this
  area, let me now turn to the
  study I conducted
• Color Graphics

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Visual Aids

• Simplicity
• Each slide should be easily comprehensible
• Clarity
• The font should be large enough and easy to read
  from the back of the room
• Brevity
• Keep the points simple (3 max)
• Tightly worded (no sentences)

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Prepare an Outline

• Keep your presentation simple
• Focus your talk around one central idea
• Include effective supporting information
• Select appropriate visual aids
• Cue cards
• Attention-getters
• Make points visually and orally

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Practice!!!

• Find a quiet place in which you can stand, talk
  out loud and walk/move
• Friends
• Mirror
• Video camera or tape recorder

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Practice!!!

• Reiterate important points (vary wording)
• Create smooth transitions (flow)
• Become familiar with your visual aids
• PowerPoint
• Develop your speaking style
• Imagine yourself talking to your audience from
  the speakers area when practicing

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Practice!!!

• Questions
• Think about possible questions (what could not be
  covered in the time allowed) and be prepared
• If you do not know the answer to a question it is
  okay, but be able to speculate about possible
  answers
• Timing
• Practice

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Presentations should not be exercises in terror
for those who give them,
nor exercises in boredom for those
who have to sit through them.
(THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A TRANSITION SLIDE)
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Nervousness

• Practice!!!
• Make sure notes and visual aids are ready
• Be confident when giving your talk
• Concentrate on what you want to say
• Shaky hands...
• If you get frightened
• Water...

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Delivery

• Eye contact
• Professional attire
• Talk (do not read ? notes only for backup)
• Move around
• Speak loudly, clearly, slowly
• Face your audience
• Vary your pitch and speak enthusiastically
• Do not be too cool
• Finish your talk within the time limit

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Final Points

• Check out the speaking area and audio-visual
  equipment
• Make sure that your visual aids are organized and
  in focus
• Do not block the projector
• Speak from the heart

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without
  enthusiasm
• -Ralph Waldo Emerson