Oral+Presentation

Oral presentation Making a good oral presentation is an art that involves attention to the needs of your audience, careful planning, and attention to delivery.  The audience Some basic questions to ask about an audience are: 1. Who will I be speaking to? 2. What do they know about my topic already? 3. What will they want to know about my topic? 4. What do I want them to know by the end of my talk? By basing the content and style of your presentation on your answers to these questions, you can make sure that you are in tune with your audience. What you want to say about your topic may be much less important than what your audience wants to hear about it.  Planning your presentation In an effective presentation, the content and structure are adjusted to the medium of speech. When listening, we cannot go back over a difficult point to understand it or easily absorb long arguments. A presentation can easily be ruined if the content is too difficult for the audience to follow or if the structure is too complicated. As a general rule, expect to cover much less content than you would in a written report. Make difficult points easier to understand by preparing the listener for them, using plenty of examples and going back over them later. Leave time for questions within the presentation. Give your presentation a simple and logical structure. Include an introduction in which you outline the points you intend to cover and a conclusion in which you go over the main points of your talk.

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