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Mgr.Antonín Zita, M.A.
Introduction to Presentations
Delivering a Bad Presentation
 What do you think are some of the features of a bad
presentation? Discuss and write down a list.
 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATfY8dvbuFg
 Did the presentation include all the items in your list?
Delivering a Good Presentation
 What would a good presentation look like?
 Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5utoLhjUuAI
 Compare and contrast the good and bad presentation and
write down a list of their features.
Good vs. Bad Presentation
 Logical structure
 Clear and to the point
 Using phrases instead of full
sentences
 Good use of visuals
 Speech -> Presentation
 interaction with the
audience (eye contact)
 practice before
 fit the time frame
 Incomprehensible
 Too long/short
 Wordy
 Too many visuals (or not
enough)
 Reading the information
 not audible enough
 speaking slowly or too fast
 Simply boring
Presentations: Before You Start…
 Who is your audience?
 How many people are in the audience?
 What media are you using?
 What technology is available?
Presentations: Introduction
 What should a good introduction include?
 Topic
 A good joke
 Reason why you’re presenting
 Outline of the presentation
 Contextualization
 Introduction of the presenter
 Results
Structure
 Introduction 1 (~2 minutes)
 (Introduction 2) (~4 minutes)
 Main Body
 Conclusion (2-3 minutes)
Structure
Introduction 1
 Who are you?
 What are you going to talk about?
 How are you going to talk about it?
 Why is it important?
Structure
Introduction 2
 Motivate audience
 Emphasize goal and importance
 Background/Terminology
 Provide greater detail
 Contextualize
 Your own motivation
Structure
Main Body
 Bring out the facts
 What you did and how did you do it
 Significance
Structure
Conclusion
 Summarize your main points
 Purpose
 Discuss current work/open problems
 Indicate your talk is over
References
 Saul Greenberg , University of Calgary,AB, Canada: GradTips http://saul.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/saul/
 Richard Zanibbi - AcademicWriting for Computer Science, Rochester Institute ofTechnology (NY,
USA), http://www.cs.rit.edu/~rlaz/writing.html