1. Why learn presentation skills?
Definition and rationale

3. Why learn presentation skills

4. Public speech differs from private speech
Impression through speech, appearance, personality and skills
Personal and private dimensions
Special techniques and rhetoric
Face – threatening act

5. Speech differs from writing
Seize the moment
Face it alone
Prepare for the unexpected
Coordinate multiple activities
Look out for audience and time

6. Context and culture dependence
Match the occasion, time and audience
Socially constructed activity
Culture dependent
Author-friendly
Audience-friendly style

7. Presentation skills are transferable
Personality development
Management and technical skills
Body language awareness
Speech awareness

8. Metaphors of presenting
Music
Learnable skills and gift
Emotional and rational appeal

9. “The problem with improvisation is that it needs so much preparation.”
Acting
Seeing and hearing
Hard work and
improvisation
Authority and personality

10. Driving Peripheral attention: automatization
Focal attention:new skills and info

11. A theoretical perspective
An academic student presentation is a STRUCTURED TALK given FORMALLY or SEMI-FORMALLY by an individual before fellow-students and instructors, who constitute an AUDIENCE, with the AIM of giving information about, analysing or arguing and justifying a viewpoint in relation to a subject area.

13. Conclusion Presentation: a highly effective communicative device
Effect through personal and professional, visual and oral channels
Gift and skill
Transferable capacities