MULTIMEDIA AND

PAPER PRESENTATION
 IMPORTANCE OF
PRESENTATION SKILLS
• Help to communicate effectively.
• Great assets, career builder
• Many rewards:
• Recognition, getting grants, getting job, good public
relation
 Key to Presentation Excellence
• Planning: (think the whole process through)
• Purpose
• Occasion
• Audience
• Preparation
• Draw up an outline
• Decide on visual aids, handout
• Actual presentation content
» Stay focus on central theme
» Keep it straight forward
» Anticipate questions
• Practice and more practice
Perfecting the delivery, well timed,
comprehensible, convincing
• Be prepared
• Plan for back – up
• Show enthusiasm
• Collect material from a variety of sources
• Arrange points logically and sequentially
• Clarity and Accuracy
• Stating your purpose
• Introduction
• Formality of language
• Talking with visuals
• Define your purpose
• The purpose of a presentation may be to
» Inform
» Persuade
» Share knowledge and experience

• Organization
• Collecting ideas on a topic
• Forming objectives and key ideas
• Structuring/ prioritizing ideas into intro, content and
conclusion
 Content
• The Introduction
• Begin with an attention getter
• Build credibility
• Preview the main points
• The Body
• Message should be complete
• Include only the necessary material
• The Close
• Review the main points
• End on a positive note
 Structuring the presentation
• 15 – 20% time ------ Opening/beginning
• 55 – 65%time ------- Middle section
• 15 – 20%time ------- Closing/end
• 5%time --------- Questions
 Method of Organization
• Select the method that suits your
objective(s) or purpose of presentation.
i. Chronological Order
ii. Three Point Technique
iii. Problem – Cause Solution
iv. Contrast and Compare Technique
i. Chronological Order
what happened first, second, third and so
on Order: Past-Present-Future or Present-
Past-Future
ii. Three Point Technique
group your information into three areas.
Audiences can take in three main points
but not more than that.
• Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I
conquered) – Julius Caesar
• A Mars a day helps you to work, rest and
play- Advertising Slogan
iii. Problem – Cause Solution
• If your objective is to persuade , convince, inspire or
motivate the audience, choose this method.

Example:

Lay out the problems: Youth and drugs

 Give its causes and consequences: Society
and lack of parental supervision
 Conclude with a solution: Drug Rehabilitation
agency and parent education
iv. Contrast and Compare Technique

• This simple method points out the

similarities and differences between two
issues events or groups.
Example:
Adult Education in America and Europe.