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Giving Academic Presentations, 2e
by Reinhart
ISBN: 978-0-472-12878-5 | Copyright 2013
TabsGiving Academic Presentations provides guidance on academic-style presentations for university students. A goal of the text is to make presenters aware that giving an effective academic presentation requires mastery of a broad range of skills. -->
The presentation genres addressed in the book are: making introductions, describing and comparing objects, explaining a process, defining a concept, and giving a problem-solution speech. Among the many academic skills and concepts addressed in the book are:
- Examination of major speech types and the accompanying organizational strategies
- Discussion of speech overviews and suggestions for designing them and creating visuals to accompany them
- Suggestions for speaker-listener interaction including checking for understanding, soliciting questions from the audience, preparing for and responding to questions, and interrupting the speaker to ask questions or request clarification
- Discussion of the importance of using evidence in academic speaking and the advantages of using certain types of evidence
- Suggestions of ways to qualify claims and strategies for making weaker or stronger claims
- Strategies and practice to improve pausing, stress, and intonation
- Practical advice about preparing and practicing speeches
- Opportunities for presenters to evaluate their own and others’ work
The Second Edition includes many new tasks and additional speeches; more attention to working with and using visuals; information about computer projection and using PowerPoint; and new sections on presenting biographical information, referring to handouts, and giving research presentations.
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Giving Academic Presentations (pg. i) | |
Contents (pg. vii) | |
Unit 1 Giving and Introduction Speech (pg. 1) | |
Unit 2 Describing and Comparing Objects (pg. 28) | |
Unit 3 Explaining a Process or Procedure (pg. 59) | |
Unit 4 Defining a Concept (pg. 93) | |
Unit 5 Giving a Problem-Solution Speech (pg. 132) | |
Unit 6 Putting It All Together (pg. 162) |
Susan M. Reinhart
Susan M. REinhart is an author of Academic Interactions.