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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:

• Use bullets!
• They’re useful for info bytes
• Key info, names, dates etc.

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

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Do: Make Eye Contact

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

Do

• Use images
• They provide visual interest as well as

visual information

DON’T:

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

Don’t

• Make presentations so long that you have to

speed through slides

• Make presentations so short you average 1

slide per 6 minutes

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

At the End

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

it.”