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Two-Week Presentation Planning Guide

Module by: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication. E-mail the author

Summary: The presentation planning guide helps students structure the tasks involved in preparing, practicing, and presenting a talk.

Two Weeks before Presentation

  • Carefully analyze the seminar paper you have to present.
  • Identify the paper’s key points.

Ten Days before Presentation

  • Submit to instructors via e-mail your answers to the questions in “Preparing a Seminar Talk on a Published Paper.”

One Week before Presentation

  • Submit via e-mail your PowerPoint slides for instructors’ review.
  • Schedule a videotaped practice session with the presentations coach.

Three Days before Presentation

  • Revise slides based on feedback from instructors.
  • Complete videotaped practice session with the presentations coach and your presentation helper. Receive feedback.

Presentation Day

  • Arrive ten minutes early to class to test the technical support.
  • Deliver presentation and receive feedback from instructors and peers.
  • Make a list of questions you anticipate being asked and schedule a follow-up practice session if it would be helpful.

Post-Presentation

  • Reflect on this experience. Did you communicate effectively? Did the audience understand the key points? Could you answer the audience’s questions? What were your strengths and weaknesses (content, delivery, visuals, q & a)?

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