Chapter 12 Test Your Knowledge

1) What skills do oral presentations give you the opportunity to practice and demonstrate?

Oral presentations give you the opportunity to practice your public speaking as well as your presenting of information. It also gives you the opportunity to plan your ideas and information out beforehand in order for you to have a clean and informative presentation.

2) What three goals should you accomplish during the introduction of an oral presentation?

You should try to encourage the audience's interest in your topic, build your own credibility and give your audience a preview of your message.

3) What techniques can you use to get an audience's attention during your introduction?

To get your audience's attention, you can unite people around a common goal, tell a story, pass around a sample, ask a question, state a startling statistic, or use humor carefully.

4) What three tasks should you accomplish in the close of your presentation?

You should restate your main points, describe the next steps, and you should end it on a strong note.


5) What steps can you take to ensure success with online presentations?

Consider sending preview study materials ahead of time, keep your presentation as simple as possible, ask for feedback frequently, 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, allow plenty of time to get connected and familiar with the screen they're using.