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How to Present a Seminar Paper To involve their students more actively in the learning process, many university teachers usua
How to Present a Seminar Paper To involve their students more actively in the learning process, many university teachers usua
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2014-03-03
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How to Present a Seminar Paper
To involve their students more actively in the learning process, many
university teachers usually conduct seminars, in which one student is asked to
give his ideas on a certain topic and other students discuss the ideas.
There are two stages involved in presenting a paper at a seminar. One
is the 【1】______stage which includes researching and writing up a topic. 【1】______
The other stage is the presentation stage when you actually present the paper
to the audience.
Two ways in which you can present your paper: a. 【2】______copies 【2】______
of your paper beforehand to all the participants so that they could read it
before the seminar and know about your ideas, b. Reading it aloud to the 【3】______
who are likely to make their own notes. Comparatively 【3】______
speaking, the first method is the more 【4】______way of conducting a 【4】______
seminar. However, you will have to introduce your paper at a seminar
because the participants may have forgotten about your ideas or because they
may have no time to read your paper.
Nine points you have to follow when introducing your paper:
1)Decide on a time 【5】______for your talk and stick to it. 【5】______
2)Write out your spoken presentation in the way you are going to speak.
3)Stick to the major points and【6】______details. 【6】______
4)Do your best to make your presentation interesting, but do not
tell jokes and 【7】______. 【7】______
5)Write out and 【8】______what you intend to say until you would 【8】______
not make any error.
6)Make 【9】______notes se that you can find your way easily from it 【9】______
to the full notes when you forget something.
7)Speak from the outline notes at the seminar.
8)Make eye contact with your audience and judge their 【10】______. 【10】______
9)Repeat your main points briefly and invite questions or comments in
order to make a strong ending.
【8】
In this talk, I am going to give some advice on how to present a seminar paper.
Nowadays, many university teachers try to involve their students more actively in the learning process. One of the ways in which this is done is by conducting seminars. In a seminar, one student is chosen to give his ideas on a certain topic. These ideas are then discussed by the other students (the participants) in the seminar.
What I’d like to discuss with you today is the techniques of presenting a paper at a seminar. As you know, there are two main stages involved in this. One is the preparation stage which involves researching and writing up a topic. The other stage is the presentation stage when you actually present the paper to your audience. It is the second stage that I am concerned with now. Let us therefore imagine that you have been asked to lead off a seminar discussion and that you have done all the necessary preparation. In other words, you have done your research and you have written it up. How are you going to present it?
There are two ways in which this can be done.
The first method is to circulate copies of the paper in advance to all the participants. This gives them time to read it before the seminar, so that they can come already prepared with their own ideas about what you have written. The second method is where there is no time for previous circulation, or there is some other reason why the paper cannot be circulated. In that case, of course, the paper will have to be read aloud to the group, who will probably make their own notes on it while they are listening.
In this talk, I am going to concentrate on the first method, where the paper is circulated in advance, as this is the most efficient way of conducting a seminar; but most of what I am going to My also applies to the second method; and indeed may be useful to remember any time you have to speak in public.
You will probably be expected to introduce your paper even if it has been circulated beforehand. There are two good reasons for this. One is that the participants may have read the paper but forgotten some of the main points. The second reason is that some of the participants may not in fact have had time to read your paper, although they may have glanced through it quickly. They will therefore not be in a position to comment on it, unless they get some idea of what it is all about.
When you are introducing your paper, what you must not do is simply read the whole paper aloud. This is because:
Firstly, if the paper is a fairly long one, there may not be enough time for discussion. From your point of view, the discussion is the most important thing. It is very helpful for you if other people criticize your work: in that way you can improve it.
Secondly, a lot of information can be understood when one is reading. It is not so easy to pick up detailed information when one is listening. In other words, there may be lack of comprehension or understanding.
Thirdly, it can be very boring listening to something being read aloud. Anyway, some of your audience may have read your paper carefully and will not thank you for having to go through all of it again.
Therefore, what you must do is the following nine points:
1. Decide on a time limit for your talk. Tell your audience what it is. Stick to your time limit. This is very important.
2. Write out your spoken presentation in the way that you intend to say it. This means that you must do some of the work of writing the paper again, in a sense. You may think that this is a waste of time, but it isn’t. If a speaker tries to make a summary of his paper while he is standing in front of his audience, the results are usually disastrous.
3. Concentrate only on the main points. Ignore details. Hammer home the essence of your argument. If necessary, find ways of making your basic points so that your audience will be clear about what they are.
4. Try to make your spoken presentation lively and interesting. This doesn’t necessarily mean telling jokes and anecdotes. But if you can think of interesting or amusing examples to illustrate your argument, use them.
5. If you are not used to speaking in public, write out everything you have to say, including examples, etc. Rehearse what you are going to say until you are word perfect.
6. When you know exactly what you are going to say, reduce it to outline notes. Rehearse your talk again, this time from the outline notes. Make sure you can find your way easily from the outline notes to the full notes, in case you forget something. 7. At the seminar, speak from the outline notes. But bring beth sets of notes and your original paper to the meeting. Knowing that you have a full set of notes available will be good for your self-confidence.
8. Look at your audience while you are speaking. The technique to use is this. First read the appropriate parts of your notes silently (if you are using outline notes, this won’t take you long). Then look up at your audience, try to judge what they are thinking. Are they following you? You will never make contact with your audience if your eyes are fixed on the paper in front of you.
9. Make a strong ending. One good way of doing this is to repeat your main points briefly and’invite questions or comments.
Perhaps I can sum up by saying this. Remember that listening is very different from reading. Something that is going to be listened has therefore got to be prepared in a different way from something that is intended to be read.
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