Chapter 13: Public Speaking & Presentations
Your instructor may ask you to complete one or more of the following exercises.
- Find an essay or project that you created in another class. Then, prepare a 3-minute presentation trying to make your audience care about the topic. Tell the story of your assignment. If possible, record your presentation and pay attention to body language, enunciation, and storytelling.
- Watch the first minute of a TED talk or other public speaking video. Then, write a short paragraph about how the speaker tries to hook the audience in. Consider voice, body language, visuals, storytelling and other elements.
- Think back to the last oral presentation that you did. How did it go? Write a very short letter to yourself giving some advice for improvement based on waht you’ve learned.
