Academic Presentation: Course Introduction

Dr.phil. Maria Teodora Ping, M.Sc.

Universitas Mulawarman
Course Introduction
• Course Description
• Course Topics & Plan
• Activities
• Assessment
Course Description
• This course is designed to equip the
students with academic presentation skills
and strategies. In this course, the students
are given opportunities to practice
presenting topic as well as engaging
themselves in this particular presentation
context.
 Course Topics & Plan
• Characteristics of an effective presentation
• Organising and structuring an academic presentation
• Visual and multimedia resources in presentation
• Language Usage
• Asking and Answering Questions Effectively
• Observing Various Academic Presentation Practices (Mid-Term Project)
• Giving Feedbacks and Evaluation
• Academic Public Speaking Problems
• Poster Presentation
• Individual Final Project
 Activities
• Classroom Discussion

• Assignments and Practices

• Individual and Group Presentation

 Assessment
• Attendance and Participation (10 %)

• Assignments and Mid- Term (40 %)

• Final Project/ Presentation (50 %)

Learning Platform
 1st Assignment
• Work individually
• Watch the videos from this website:
https://www.ted.com/playlists/574/how_to_make_a_great_presentation
• Read Module 1
• Create a brief videotaped presentation (duration 2-3 minutes) to discuss about what you
have learned from the article and the video examples.
• Upload/ post your assignment on youtube and submit the link here at the latest on
Thursday, 26th August 2021 by 16.00 p.m. (Central Indonesian Time/ WITA).