Effective Presentation Skills Tutorial

As part of your academic studies and future career, you may be required to develop and deliver oral presentations for a variety of reasons. You may also have opportunities to present your class project, thesis or dissertation; give a presentation at a student organization meeting; or present a project to a client. How you prepare, develop and deliver presentations can help you achieve your goal and make a good impression on your audience.

Developing and delivering a presentation need not be a lot of work compared to writing a report. Presentations make a far more immediate impression compared to a written report.

Some of the major topics related to developing and delivering effective presentations are:

This tutorial will briefly cover each of these six topics, and there may be other topics depending on your discipline or areas of interest for which you may be able to find more resources on the web.

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