Effective Presentation Skills

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Course Outline

  1. Presentation Purpose and Structure
  2. Audience Analysis
  3. Locale and Audience Adaptation
  4. Presentation Organization
  5. Main Body Patterns
  6. Visual Aid Selection
  7. Kinesics and Body Language
  8. Paralinguistics and Proxemics

1. Presentation Purpose and Structure

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Presentation : Organized information used to demonstrate, illustrate, and explain a specific topic to a specific audience for a particular purpose.

β˜… Must-know

  • Presentations may inform, persuade, or entertain an audience.

Further detail

  • A presentation may involve: offering or displaying something to convince, speaking to inform or instruct, formally introducing a person, presenting something for attention, showing a symbol or image that represents or explains something

Memory Hook

Purpose β†’ organize β†’ demonstrate β†’ persuade

2. Audience Analysis

  • Audience analysis considers:
    • interests
    • knowledge
    • attitudes
    • gender
    • approximate ages
    • size
    • composition
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1. Which characteristics define a presentation and its main purposes?

2. Concerning the purposes and functions of presentations, select the accurate statements:

3. What should a speaker estimate when conducting audience analysis before preparing a presentation?

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What is a presentation?

Organized information to demonstrate, illustrate, and explain a topic.

What are the three main purposes of presentations?

To inform, persuade, or entertain an audience.

What can a presentation involve to convince an audience?

Offering or displaying something.

What is one purpose of speaking in a presentation?

To inform or instruct.

What is a formal introduction in a presentation?

Introducing a person.

What must be estimated before preparing a presentation?

The audience's interests, knowledge, attitudes, gender, ages, size, and composition.

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