Oral Reports
Chapter Opener
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present information to a live audience
present information to a live audience
How to start
- Adapting material?
- Organize your presentation
Oral Reports
In an oral report, you present material you have researched to an audience listening and watching rather than reading. So you must organize information clearly and find ways to convey your points powerfully, memorably, and sometimes graphically.
For a psychology course, you use presentation software to review the results of an experiment you and several classmates designed to test which types of music were most conducive to studying for examinations.-
In a Shakespeare class, you use slides to give an oral report on Elizabethan theaters that draws upon research you are doing for your end-
of- semester term paper. -
Prepping a crowd for a protest march, you use a bullhorn and a little humor to review the very serious ground rules for staging a peaceful demonstration on the grounds of the state capitol.