| Course title | |||||
| Advanced Technical Presentation [Advanced Technical Presentation] | |||||
| Course category | courses for the doctral program | Requirement | Credit | 1 | |
| Department | Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering | Year | ～ | Semester | 3rd |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 148203 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| ANTHONY Laurence（早） [ANTHONY Laurence] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
| In this course, students will develop the oral presentation skills needed to present scientific and technical research findings in their specialist field to an international conference audience. The course will be divided into four parts. In the first part of the course, there will be general discussion on the macro level aspects of oral presentations that need to be considered during the preparation process. These include purpose, intended audience, organization, flow, style, and delivery. There will also be a discussion on the problems associated with presentation Q&A and effective strategies to deal with these. In the second part of the course, there will be a short tutorial on how presentation software applications can be effectively used to explain the background, methods, results, and conclusions of scientific and engineering studies. In the third part of the course, students will be required to prepare and then give an oral presentation introducing the background to their current research. Students in the audience will be required to ask questions during the question time session, and submit a report on their impressions of the presentation and areas they think could be improved. Following a similar procedure, in part four of the course, students will be required to prepare and give a more complete presentation on the findings of their research similar to that given at an international conference. As in part three, students in the audience will be required to ask questions and submit an evaluation report. After each set of presentations, there will be a general discussion and feedback session that highlights problems and areas for improvement. |
| Expected Learning |
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1. Understand the importance of presentations and their inherent problems. 2. Control nerves and deliver a presentation with confidence and authority. 3. Design clear and attractive visual aids. 4. Use popular presentation software packages. 5. Identify the audience, purpose, organization, flow, style, and delivery of presentations. 6. Deliver a presentation from a prepared speech or notes with comprehensible pronunciation and intonation. 7. Use natural-sounding linking phrases and expressions when navigating and explaining presentation content. 8. Understand how to deal with questions from the audience. 9. Learn how to cite and reference presentation resources and data. |
| Course schedule |
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Outline Week 1 (1) General Introduction: Aims of course. Evaluation procedure. (2) Overview of Oral Presentations: Importance of oral presentations. Types of oral presentations. Differences between Japanese and English presentations. (3) Introductory-Presentation: Experiencing the problems of talking in front of people (4) Introductory-Presentation: Understanding body language Week 2 Considerations when preparing an oral presentation - audience, purpose, organization Week 3 Considerations when preparing an oral presentation - organization, style, flow, delivery Week 4 (1) Introduction to presentation software (PowerPoint) (2) Slide design in PowerPoint (mastering the master slide) (3) Navigating slides in PowerPoint Week 5 (1) Overview of Presentation One - Background to current research. (2) General design and format for Presentation One. (3) Guidelines for preparing presentations and completing evaluation reports. Week 6 Presentation One (session 1) - Background to current research (5 minute presentation, 2 minute question/answer session) Week 7 Presentation One (session 2) - Background to current research (5 minute presentation, 2 minute question/answer session) Week 8 Presentation One discussion and feedback. Week 9 Language of presentations (1) Explaining the Title/Outline/Introduction/Conclusion sections of a presentation Week 10 Language of presentations (2) Explaining science and engineering methods/processes Week 11 Language of presentations (3) Explaining data in the form of figures/tables Week 12 Language of presentations (4) Understanding and answering questions from the audience Week 13 (1) Overview of Presentation Two - Findings of current research (2) General design and format for Presentation Two. (3) Guidelines for preparing presentations and completing evaluation reports. (4) Group Work Week 14 Presentation Two (session 1) - Findings of current research (10 minute presentation, 2 minute question/answer session) Week 15 Presentation Two (session 2) - Findings of current research (10 minute presentation, 2 minute question/answer session) |
| Prerequisites |
| In preparation for the course, you will need to prepare some research content (i.e., background references, methods descriptions, figures/tables of results, etc.) that you can develop into slides (e.g., PowerPoint or Keynote slides) during the course. At the end of the course, you will be expected to present this content in front of the other course members as part of a short five- to ten-minute presentation. One option for the content is to bring the materials you used to prepare the final paper for the technical writing course you have attended. However, you may also bring other content if you want. Please note that during the course, there will be no time to *create content*. Rather, we will be taking your already completed content and redesigning it into bullet points, simplified figures/tables, and summary slides. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Course materials will be distributed in the first lesson. |
| References |
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Anthony, L. (2010) Presenting Research in Science and Engineering (2nd Edition). DTP Publishing, Tokyo, Japan. Bringing an advanced English/Japanese dictionary to class is recommended. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Students will be evaluated based on a portfolio of work comprising of: 1. Materials used to prepare a presentation on the background to their current research. 2. PowerPoint file for the presentation on the background to their current research. 3. Materials used to prepare a presentation on the findings of their current research. 4. PowerPoint file for the presentation on the findings of their current research. 5. Evaluation reports for other students’ presentations. |
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| Remarks 1 |
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1. Students are required to work individually or in groups, and give a series presentations of increasing sophistication in English during the span of the course. Students are also required to evaluate and submit reports on the presentations of other students in the class. Therefore, attendance and participation are an integral part of the course. 2. A basic tutorial on the use of presentation software (Microsoft PowerPoint) will be given, although prior knowledge of such software is desired. For details, see the attached file. |
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| Lecture Language |
| English |
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| Last update |
| 6/11/2019 5:14:22 PM |