4. Presentation
• Presentation
- Art of Speaking
• Purpose
- To inform
- To analyze
- To persuade
• Know your Audience
- Interest
- Familiarity with Topic
- Size of Group
- Age & Gender Range
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5. 10 ways for Effective Presentation
Always begin with a
Smile.
Make an eye contact
with your audience.
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6. 10 ways for Effective Presentation
Begin with anecdotes or video clip.
Be Clear about the Topic.
Emphasize Key points.
Use Visual Aids.
Speak with confidence.
Make your points clear and easy.
Dress for Success
Encourage questions from
audience.
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8. Content
Your content should be:
- Brief
- Clear
- Significant
- Interesting
Main Body
Introduction
Main Text
Conclusion
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9. Introduction:
• Question
– How important is this topic?
– When will it be useful?
• A sincere greeting
– Warm welcome to my enthusiastic friends
• Starting statement
– I am here to brief you about …
• Quotation
– First impression is …
• Anecdote / Experience
– Story / incident
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Organizing content
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10. Organizing content
Main Body/Discussion
• It supports your aim or specific
purpose by expanding the major
points.
• Patterns:
• Chronological
• Categorical
• Cause and Effect
• Problem-Solution
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11. Conclusion:
• Remind the audience briefly
about outline
• One can conclude with a
quotation or recall the earlier
story, joke, anecdote to bring
one’s presentation to a full
circle.
• Tell them what you want them
– To do
– To think
– To remember
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Organizing content
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12. The importance of Visual Aids
Increase audience
interest
Illustrate key points
Signal transition from one
part of the presentation
to the next
Help listeners retain
information
Help you present ideas
without depending on
notes
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13. Visual support
• Objects
• Models
• People
• Drawings
• Photographs
• Maps
• Graphs
– bar
– pie
– line
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14. Kinesics
• Kinesics is known as the study of physical movement of body.
It is the way body communicates without words, i.e., through
various parts of the body.
• Body language is a form of mental and physical ability of
human non-verbal communication, which consists of body
posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements.
‘Nobility and dignity; self-abasement and servility, insolence
and vulgarity, are reflected in the face and in the attitudes of
the body whether still or in motion.’
- Socrates
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15. According to the social
anthropologist, Edward
T. Hall, in a normal
conversation between
two persons, less than
35% of the social
meanings is actually
transmitted by words.
So, at least 65% of it is
conveyed through the
body (non-verbal
channel).
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18. Posture
• Hands in pocket
(disrespectful in Turkey)
• Sitting with legs crossed
(offensive in Ghana,
Turkey)
• Showing soles of feet.
(Offensive in Saudi Arabia)
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19. Gesture
• Gesture is movement made by
hands, arms, shoulders, head and
torso.
• It should be quite natural and
spontaneous.
• Beware of irritating gestures like:
× Playing with a ring
× Twisting a key chain
× Clasping the hands tightly
× Cracking knuckles
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20. Facial Expressions
• The face is the most
expressive part of the body.
A smile stands for friendliness
A frown for discontent
Raised eyebrows for disbelief
Tightened jaw muscles for
antagonism
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21. Five Basic Expressions
• Inhibited – restricted and
stolid
• Uninhibited – spontaneous
and impetuous
• Substitute – happy with a
long face
• Frozen – no change in
expression
• Blank – no expression at all
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22. Proxemics
• Proxemics is the study of physical space in
interpersonal relations. In a professional setting,
space is used to signal power and status.
• Four distinct zones of space
• Intimate
• Personal
• Social
• Public
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23. Paralinguistics and Chronemics
• Paralinguistics features are non-verbal
vocal cues that help you to give urgency to
your voice.
Characteristics
Quality
Volume
Pace/Rate
Pitch
Articulation
Pronunciation
• Chronemics – the study of how human
beings communicate through their use of
time.
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24. Things You
Shouldn’t Do
• Read directly from notes
• Read directly from screen
• Turn back on audience
• Slouch, hands in pockets
• No nervous gestures
• Talk too fast
• Talk too quietly
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27. Conclusion
• To recapitulate, oral presentation is an art that
requires careful planning, preparation, and a
great deal of practice.
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28. References
• Raman Minakshi & Sharma Sangeeta, ‘Technical
Communication: Principles and Practice’, 2008. New Delhi :
Oxford University Press.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXILI9Q1jIw
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBthvuOQpKc
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