Academic Presentation Making 12/12/17 Useful Phrases 1 Academic Presentation Making 12/12/17

Outline 1) Motivational Example 2) Useful Phrases

Why these Phrases will be helpful Words used in casual discourse or laid-back presentations Oh Well Like Ok Erm Em

Ways to Reference Material on a Slide On this slide ... Let me use a graphic to illustrate my idea By showing you ... Let the picture speak for itself This graph shows the ... The graph I am pointing at At the top of the slide (middle of slide) Near the bottom of the slide

Emphasize Certain Points It should be emphasized that Draw your attention to this point The significance of this is We have to remember that

Paraphrase In other words What I meant to say To explain the idea differently To put it another way To put it more simply

Links This ties in with If you remember the previous slide I was taking earlier about As I said at the beginning Later on I hope that this becomes clearer I hope that you are now a little clearer on I want to go back to the beginning

End of a Section / Interim Conclusions That is all I have to say about Now that we have finished looking at So much for To sup up Briefly summarizing what we covered in this section I’d like to recap the main points

Starting the Next Section Let’s turn to The next part I’d like to move to my next part Turning our attention now to