Have you ever wondered how you can present your research results in a more confident manner? In this course you will learn how to improve both your preparation and your presentation skills. You will discover how to design your visuals in the clearest and most appropriate way, structure your presentation correctly, get and keep the audience’s attention, make good use of your voice and body language, and handle questions from the audience.
By the end of this course on presenting your research, you will be able to:
- Structure a presentation correctly, and know which information elements to include
- Give a successful presentation in an academic setting
In particular, you will be able to:
- Design clear, interesting visuals
- Ensure a good rapport with the audience
- Use your voice in such a way that the audience keeps listening
- Handle the audience’s questions politely and appropriately
- Use an enlarged academic vocabulary
- Understand and overcome your own strengths and weaknesses in presenting in English
Our Professors
Ingrid de Beer MA
Ingrid de Beer is lecturer of the core courses Writing Research Proposals and Presenting Your Research Confidently. Ingrid is Education Officer at Defensity College, Ministry of Defence. She advises and coaches people, schools and organisations as teacher/trainer, examiner and consultant.
Testimonials
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I will recommend this course to others because it really gives you a lot of techniques on how to prepare presentations and present it confidently. This is really important for persons who have to defend their thesis or dissertation and those have to make presentations regularly. Peer and teacher's feedback also makes the course very good for young professionals because its easier to understand feedback given to you by your peers and also learn specific ways of improving your performance. The course has definitely been useful.
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