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EL00719: Presentation skills

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Academic Skills Centre
Credits: 0      [equivalent to 0 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: See Director of Studies for further information
Level: Non-credit (FHEQ level n/a)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: To be confirmed
Assessment Detail:
  • Not Applicable
Supplementary Assessment:
Not applicable
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
The aim of this unit is to help students integrate into the academic environment and to raise the level of their degree work.

Learning Outcomes:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Prepare, plan and deliver an oral presentation;
* Evaluate a presentation;
* Invite questions and create thinking time for the answer;
* Ask a lecturer or presenter questions;
* Identify weaknesses in their pronunciation, and understand how to rectify them.

Skills:

* Engage an audience
* Adopt appropriate body language when giving a presentation
* Use technical visual aids when giving a presentation
* Understand the principles of time management when giving a presentation
* Cope with nerves, equipment failure etc. when giving a presentation.

Content:
Presentation skills:
* Preparation
* Planning and structuring the talk
* The stages of a talk
* Visual aids
* Delivery (including intonation, body language etc)
* Dealing with questions and answers
* Trouble-shooting
Pronunciation:
* Intonation
* Chunking
* Stress
* linking.
Programme availability:

EL00719 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Academic Skills Centre

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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