Subject
Year
: G-1342 Research Seminar
: 2008/2009
A Research:
RESEARCH RESULT PRESENTATION
Meeting 10
How To Present A Successful Seminar
http://www.rx.uga.edu/main/home/cmomany/Public/ResearchSeminar/rsh.pdf
7 STEPS:
1. Selecting the topic
2. Choosing the format
3. Show, don’t tell
4. Designing the slides
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How To Present
A Successful Seminar
5. Sitting at the computer
6. Preparing the abstract
7. Giving the seminar itself
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Preparation
Step 1: Selecting
a topic:
• Be somewhat familiar/interested in the topic;
• The topic must not be one that the student
has currently or has done a research in;
• The topic must be covered comprehensively
within the allocated time period (35-40
minutes);
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Step 2: Choosing
the format
1. How you make the presentation is affected
by what the speaker expects the audience to
learn and by the attitude of the audience;
2. A structure is required to provide a smooth,
orderly, and complete guide for preparation
and presentation;
3. The seminar must have a beginning and an
end;
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Step 3:
Show, don’t tell
1. "Visuals represent the credibility of your presentation,
reinforcing your spoken words“;
2. Visuals double as note cards;
3. Types of visuals:
Use verbal visuals (i.e., word slides) when:
– Presenting ideas that cannot be visualized
– Emphasizing ideas or concepts to be remembered
– The message involves a few major points
Use the real thing when:
– It is available
– It is unusual or interesting enough to attract or maintain attention
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Use graphs, maps, or flow charts to:
– Show organization, flow, percentages, changes over time, trends, or
projections
– Facilitate the explanation of a procedure
Use drawings when:
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A diagram facilitates an explanation
Leaving out detail emphasizes that which is shown
Photos or the real item are not available
Inside or cross-section views are needed
Use photographs when:
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A photo is more descriptive than words
Showing clarity of detail
Showing a step-by-step process
Comparing past and present, good and bad, or conditions someplace
else
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4. Where to get visuals:
– From an expert on campus
– From someone elsewhere in the country
– From books and journals
– From Photograph objects (roads, trees, foods,
people, equipment, plants, etc.) yourself
– From drawings, maps, and pictures available on
CD-ROM or the World Wide Web
– By making your own drawings using a drawing
program
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To be continued…in meeting 11
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