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What do you need to do to give a good presentation?

A presentation conveys information from a speaker to an audience. Presentations are


typically demonstrations, introduction, lecture, or speech meant to inform, instruct, persuade,
inspire, motivate, build goodwill, and entertain or to present a new project.
Presentations may be actually a great way to speak directly to people who are interested
in your field of study, to gather ideas to push your projects forward, and to make valuable
personal connections.
However, giving a good presentation takes time and practice. Before you even give a
good presentation, you need to prepare. This part has two main aspects to rehearse what you’re
going to say and to prepare yourself mentally and emotionally.
The first and most important rule of presenting your work is to set the objectives and to
know your audience members. By identifying the level of your audience, you can provide an
appropriate amount of content in terms of key points, evidence, and details when explaining your
work.
Another important point is the structure of the presentations, in order to make it easy for
your listeners to follow your story such as the opening, the close, and transitions between the
topics. Various types of openings may be used, as interacting with and involving the audience, a
powerful quotation, a rhetorical question and direct address to the audience, unusual combination
of elements, direct question to the audience or rhetorical questions.
Also, you need to take care of the visual aids, amount, design, and format of the
presentation that is putting all the words on the slides, spelling errors, to not use a bad color
schemes or inappropriate fonts, too many bullet points, too many slides, too much data or too
much animation.
In order to prepare yourself mentally and emotionally, it is necessary to learn how to
control your nerves, to present with confidence, and to get your message across with clarity and
impact, monitoring your voice volume, pace, and pitch. Incorporating rhetorical techniques, such
as repetition, contrast, tripling or using humour, it is very significant in order to make your
message as engaging as possible.
Another essential point is how to master your body language that is you should have a
natural resting position posture, gestures, and to maintain the eye contact with the audience
avoiding reading from the screen or holding and reading from papers. You should not gesture all
the time, hold your hands at the back, hold your hands in your pockets, hold your hands on your
hips, fold your arms or cross your arms.
And last but not least, you should use the magic ingredients, such as the enthusiasm,
confidence, and rapport.

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