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Presentation Tips At the Beginning... Introduce yourselves and your topic DO: Prepare, practice Engage with your audience Be present (mentally and physically) Make additional comments, if relevant BE ON TIME DO:


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Presentation Tips

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At the Beginning...

  • Introduce yourselves and your topic
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DO:

  • Prepare, practice
  • Engage with your audience
  • Be present (mentally and physically)
  • Make additional comments, if relevant
  • BE ON TIME
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DO:

  • Use bullets!
  • They’re useful for info bytes
  • Key info, names, dates etc.
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ABSOLUTELY DO NOT

  • Write out full-length paragraphs because

they’re really long and people will stop reading them about a third of the way through and they’re bulky and look terrible

  • n a presentation and they’re boring unless

they have a punchline which is rare dorsal fin hockey puck monkey monkey underpants

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Do: Make Eye Contact

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DON’T:

  • STRICTLY READ OFF OF YOUR SLIDES
  • Look down at a script
  • Have a script
  • Stare into space when it’s not your turn
  • Be unsure of what you’re talking about
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Do

  • Use images
  • They provide visual interest as well as

visual information

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DON’T:

Go overboard. This ain’t cute. And this is too hard to read.

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Don’t

  • Make presentations so long that you have to

speed through slides

  • Make presentations so short you average 1

slide per 6 minutes

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Further Tips and Advice

  • You will flub a line/word
  • You will gesticulate more than normal
  • Your voice will do weird things
  • You may lose the thread of what you were

talking about

  • Roll with it
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At the End

  • Thank the audience
  • Be prepared to answer questions
  • Don’t end with “Ummm… So that’s

it.”