Preparing slides for an Oral Presentation

Relevant Concepts: Presentation delivery tools, formal presentations.

The slide below comes from a presentation on team presentations. The construction of the content on the slide violates many of the principles discussed in Chapter 10 and contains parallelism and word choice errors.

As your instructor directs,

a. Correct parallelism errors and word choice errors

b. Applying what you learned in Chapter 10, indicate how you would revise the slide in PowerPoint. While you may need to delete some words or sentences or add content, be sure your edits preserve the writer's ideas.

c. Create a PowerPoint slide (or slides) to reflect the revisions you indicated in steps a and b.

PLEASE BE EXTREMELY DETAILED AND DO NOT FORGET B AND C BELOW THE PICTURE FOR THE REMAINDER INSTRUCTIONS!

Things to Think About The team must decide where members will sit or stand, how visuals will be presented, how to adjust microphones, and team members should know about entering and exiting. - Chose who will present the closing and what it will include. What will be summarized? Will the audience ask questions? Who will facilitate the question-and-answer session How will the questions effect your conclusion After rehearsal sessions, outsiders (non-team members) might be asked to view the team's presentation and provide there feedback. The team might also consider video taping a rehearsal so that all members can evaluate it. The principle step: Take special care to plan the presentation to determine the sequence of the presentation as well as the content of each team member's part and which sections are best lead by each group member. Plan for the physical delivery: type of delivery, use of notes, and you must dress appropriately. - Several rehearsals should be planned. Practice the presentation in it's entirety several times as a group before the actual presentation. During rehearsals, individual members should critique each other's contribution and offer specific ways to improve. Remember: "Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident