Unit One What You Need to Know Before Making a Presentation

Welcome to the Course

1.1 How Is Presentation Different From Conversation?

1.2 What Is the Presentation Style?

1.3 What Are the Presentation Types You Are Expected to Deliver?

1.4 What Makes a Bad Presentation?

1.5 What Makes a Good Presentation?

Test 1

Unit Two Planning

2.1 Objective Establishment

2.2 Audience Analysis

2.3 Topic Choosing

2.4 Location: Presentation Venue and Seating Plan

Test 2

Unit Three Preparing (Content)

3.1 How to Start a Presentation?

3.2 How to Grab the Audience’s Attention?

3.3 Organizational Patterns

3.4 How to Colse a Presentation?

3.5 Signposting

Test 3

Unit Four Preparing (Visual Aids)

4.1 The Importance of Using Visual Aids

4.2 Visual Aids in Academic Presentations

4.3 Using Texts and Graphs

4.4 Using Fonts, Colors, Animations and Transitions.

4.5 Practice What We Have Learned

Test 4

Unit Five Presenting

5.1 Non-verbal language

5.2 Eye contact

5.3 Gesture

5.4 Posture

5.5 Voice

5.6 Performance

Test 5

Unit Six Lecture Note-taking

6.1 Introduction to Note-taking

6.2 Different Methods of Note-Taking

6.3 Useful Tips for Improving Note-Taking Skills

Test 6

Unit Seven Seminar

7.1 Preparing for a Seminar

7.2 During a Seminar

7.3 Communication Strategies for a Chairperson

Test 7

Unit Eight International Conference

8.1 Obtaining Conference Information

8.2 Different Meetings

8.3 Organizers and Committees

8.4 Session Modes

8.5 Conference Notice

8.6 Call for Conference Papers

8.7 Letter of Invitation

8.8 Curriculum Vitae

Test 8

Unit Nine From Paper to Presentation

9.1 What Is the Basic Structure of a Research Paper?

9.2 How to Start a Paper Presentation?

9.3 How to Prepare the Body Part Based on the Paper?

Test 9