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. Key features  Aims Explicit Implicit  Speech acts Informative Organisational Territorial Cooperative