Presentations

References are required for Presentations too. Provide a list of references as your last slide and also as a printed hand-out.

Individual sections of the Presentation should last approx. 4 minutes.

You should use one of the group members as a 'Linker' who first introduces the general topic of the Presentation and then introduces each individual speaker (group member) to provide their section and signs off the whole Presentation at the end. NB The linker will have their own section as well!

Make sure your Presentation is not an oral form of Wikipedia (or other internet sources) and that you have created an individual and personal ordering of ideas and information in a logical and interesting manner. As with Papers, take time, energy and effort to craft the overall Presentation so that it appears as a unit, with no contradictions or repetitions between sections. For your slides, remember the points you learnt in last year's Listening and Speaking course (not too much or too little on one slide, spacing, size, colour, time needed for audience to read slide, but not slides containing every word the speaker says!). Make sure each speaker refers to their slides, both by mentioning them and by pointing to parts of them. A Presentation is both oral and visual and the two modalities should be used interdependently. Make sure your slides are not simply wallpaper!

Your Presentation should conclude with the Coorodinator/Linker making a brief conclusion of the whole Presentation, asking if there are any questions from the audience and then, once the questions have been dealt with, thanking the audience for their attention.

Take time to practise the whole Presentation together as a group and make constructive criticism of one another. Make sure you speak slowly, loudly and distinctly enough for your audience to be able to understand and follow what you are saying clearly.

The dates for the Presentations will be indicated here later and one member of the Group should sign up for one of these dates (after consulting with the other members!) via the Choice option which I shall activate on our section of the Moodle page.