Giving Academic Presentations

by Reinhart, Susan M.

• ISBN13: 9780472088843
• ISBN10: 047208884X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-11
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

Giving Academic Presentationsprovides 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

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)
Notes to the Instructor
Giving an Introduction Speech	1	(24)
Sizing Up Your Audience
Clarifying Your Purpose
Organizing Your Speech
A First Look at Linking Words: Time Connectors
Organization Indicator Statements
Beginning Your Speech
Concluding Your Speech
Nonverbal Behavior
Supplementary Materials
Pronunciation: Pausing
Introducing Colleagues at Conferences and Seminars
Describing an Object	25	(34)
Organization
Pointing with Words
Nonverbal Behavior: Pointing with Your Hands
Describing an Object
Statements of Purpose
Organization Indicator Statements
Making Visual Aids
Checking for Understanding
Supplementary Materials
Pronunciation: Stress
Giving a Tour
Planning Your Tour
Explaining a Process or Procedure	59	(29)
Introductions to Process Speeches
Organizing the Process: Linking Words
Explaining the Process: Tense, Voice, the Imperative
Using Modals in Process Speeches
Checking for Understanding
Asking for Questions
Supplementary Materials
Pronunciation: Intonation
Giving an Instructions Speech
Examples of Cleft Sentences Using What
Defining a Concept	88	(31)
Developing or Extending a Definition
Opening a Definition Speech
Formal Definitions
Defining Additional Terms
Using Transparencies with Outlines
Let me (lemme)
Interrupting the Speaker
Supplementary Materials
Pronunciation: Intonation and Noun Phrases
Gestures
Improving Hand Gestures
Giving a Problem-Solution Speech	119	(33)
Strategies to Signal Problems or Disadvantages
Strategies to Signal a Solution
Listing
Speaking to Persuade: Providing Evidence
Revealing Disadvantages to Your Solution
Hedging: Qualifying Your Claims
Concluding Your Speech
Providing an Overview or Outline Summary
Making a Transparency to Accompany an Overview
Ways to Critique a Solution
Supplementary Materials
Pronunciation: Unstressed Words, Unstressed Syllables
Additional Work with Problem-Solution Speeches
Full Script of ``Are Curfews a Solution to Juvenile Crime?''
Putting It All Together	152
Taking a Position
Comparison and Contrast
Narration
Supplementary Materials