Preparing Presentations


Career advancement in both the academic and the professional arenas may well depend upon your ability to communicate orally to a variety of audiences. For example, you may be asked to present lab reports, technical briefs, or training instructions to a group of people.

You can make the large task of constructing and delivering an oral presentation more manageable if you divide the assignment into small goals and then approach each task methodically:

Another excellent resource for developing oral presentations is available from Jeff Radel at the Kansas University Medical Center: Effective Presentations

Developed from materials prepared by
Molly Brown
Writing Center at Rensselaer
Other Works
Galke, Sue. 101 Ways to Captivate a Business Audience,
New York: Anacom, 1997.
Morrisey, George L., et al. Loud and Clear.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.