Giving Academic Presentations

Susan M. Reinhart

About the Book

Giving Academic Presentations provides guidance on academic-style presentations for ESL students and native speakers. One goal of this text is to make presenters aware that giving an effective presentation requires mastery of a broad range of skills. Students will learn how to choose an appropriate topic, create effective visuals, and design a speech opening.

This textbook provides:

• helpful analyses of speeches
• examination of major speech types, accompanying organizational strategies, and related language use
• tips for improving nonverbal behavior
• suggestions for speaker-listener interaction
• an analysis of ways to qualify claims and strategies for improving them
• opportunities for evaluating one's work and the work of others

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