Towards your Forum Paper: Presentation skills for the Second Year Forum

What is "Toward your Forum Paper: Presentation skills?"

In this two-day workshop you will practise presenting and discussing your research, specifically your Forum Paper presentations.

The workshop not only looks at questions of language per se, but also aims to provide a protected space in which you can improve both confidence and competence when presenting in English. 

How is the workshop organised?

Day One      workshop on presentation skills

Day Two      you will do 'dry runs' of your papers

The precise dates will be announced nearer to the time, but generally the workshop takes place the week before the Forum.

Feedback on your presentations will come from three sources:  yourself, your peers, and your teacher. It will be both oral and written.  If you already have an idea of certain areas you would like to work on, you can ask for directed feedback on these.

What presentation skills will the workshop look at?

We will be practising the skills needed to give an academic presentation in English, including:

• Getting your audience’s interest
• Maintaining your audience’s interest
• Organising an introduction
• Transition expressions: moving from one part of your speech to another
• Concluding your presentation
• Handling questions and critiques
• Effective use of visual aids

We will also be considering:

• Body language
• Use of voice: volume, speed etc.
• Making yourself understood: pronunciation, ‘chunking’ etc. 
• Understanding others