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| Doctoral Student Presentation Skills [Doctoral Student Presentation Skills] | |||||
| 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 | 148206 | ||
| 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 thiscourse, students will develop the oral presentation skills they need to presentscientific and technical research findings in their specialist field to aninternational conference audience. The course will be divided into two parts.In the first part of the course, students will study about the characteristicfeatures of high-quality international conference presentations in terms ofintended audience, purpose, organization, flow, style, and delivery. Studentswill also learn to how to adopt effective presentation skills, visualizationtechniques, and language patterns to present their specialist work in a powerfuland effective way. In the second part of the course, students will plan anddeliver a short research presentation describing their current work following atypical conference presentation format. As part of the presentation planningprocess, students will learn how to paraphrase, cite, and reference previous work,explain simple and extended concepts in their field, describe their methods andprocesses, introduce, explain, and hedge interpretations of data in figures andtables, and summarize their research. |
| 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. identify the audience, purpose, organization, flow, style, and delivery of presentations 5. deliver a presentation from notes with comprehensible pronunciation 6. use natural-sounding linking phrases and expressions when navigating and explaining presentation content 7. understand how to deal with questions from the audience 8. learn how to cite and reference presentation resources and data |
| Course schedule |
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Day 1 (December 7, 2019 - Saturday) Period 1: Introduction and Basic Principles of Presenting in Science and Engineering:The importance of presentations; Controlling nerves in front of an audience Period 2: Audience, Purpose, Organization, Flow, Style, Delivery [Self-learning activities: watching authentic scientific and engineering presentations; evaluating a presentation in a specialized field; ] Period 3: Effective Strategies for Delivering Clear and Powerful Presentations: Period 4: Effective use of hardware and software; Slide design; Useful expressions for explaining and linking slides Period 5: Preparing a short 4-slide presentation on your research background [Self-learning activities: explaining and recording a presentation; analyzing strengths and weaknesses] Day 2 (December 14, 2019 - Saturday) Period 1-2: The language of presentations (part 1): Explaining the title, outline, introduction, and conclusion [Self-learning activities: designing and practicing the main sections of a research presentation] Period 3-4: The language of presentations (part 2): Explaining the methods and results Period 5: Designing the final presentation (oral vs poster presentations) [Self-learning activities: designing and practicing the methods and results sections of a research presentation] Day 3 (December 21, 2019 - Saturday) Period 1: The language of presentations (part 3): Handling the Q&A of a presentation [Self-learning activities: watching Q&A sessions, practicing answering impossible questions] Period 2: Introduction to poster presentation design and delivery techniques [Self-learning activities: designing a poster, explaining the main points, responding to questions and comments] Period 3: Feedback on drafts of the final (poster) presentations Period 4-5: Final (poster) presentations [Self-learning activities: analyzing final presentations, looking for improvements] 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 three days of the course. At the end of the three-day 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 summer intensive course in technical writing that many of you attended. However, you may also bring more recent 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. A basic tutorial on the use of presentation software (Microsoft PowerPoint) will be given, although prior knowledge of such software is desired. |
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| 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 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. For details, see the attached file. |
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| Last update |
| 6/11/2019 11:33:20 AM |