Test Your Knowledge

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4/1/2010

1.Oral presentations offer important opportunities to put all your communication skills on display, including research, planning, writing, visual design, and interpersonal and nonverbal communication. They also give you the ability to think on your feet.

2. The three goals you should accomplish during the introduction of an oral presentation are to arouse the audience's interest in your topic, to establish your credibility, and to prepare the audience for what will follow.

3. Some techniques to get the audience's attention during your introduction are to unite the audience around a common goal, tell a story, pass around a sample, ask a question, state a startling statistic, and use humor.

4. Three tasks you should accomplish in the close of your presentation are to restate your main points, describe the next steps, and to end on a strong note.

5. Some steps that you can take to ensure success with online presentations are to consider sending preview study materials ahead of time, keep your presentation as simple as possible, ask for feedback directly, consider the viewing experience from the audience members' point of view, make sure your audience can receive the sort of content you intend to use, and allow plenty of time for everyone to get connected and familiar with the screen they're viewing.