Adrian Wallwork

English for Presentations at International Conferences (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Good presentation skills are key to a successful career in academia. This guide provides examples taken from real presentations given both by native and non-native academics covering a wide variety of disciplines.

The easy-to-follow guidelines and tips will teach you how to:

• plan, prepare and practice a well-organized, interesting presentation
• avoid errors in English by using short easy-to-say sentences
• improve your English pronunciation and intonation
• gain confidence, and overcome nerves and embarrassment
• highlight the essential points you want your audience to remember
• attract and retain audience attention
• deal with questions from the audience

This new edition contains several additional features, including stimulating factoids and discussion points both for self-study and in-class use. New chapters also cover:

interacting successfully with non-native audiences
• posters

EAP teachers will find this book to be a great source of tips for training students, and for preparing both instructive and entertaining lessons.

Other books in the series cover: writing research papers; English grammar, usage, and style; academic correspondence; interacting on campus; plus exercises books and a teacher's guide.

Please visit http://www.springer.com/series/13913 for a full list of titles in the series.

Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 30 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to write research papers, prepare presentations, and communicate witheditors, referees and fellow researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319263304
• Artikelnr.: 44884501

Autorenporträt

Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 30 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to write research papers, prepare presentations, and communicate with editors, referees and fellow researchers.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The importance of presentations.- 2. TED and learning from others.- 3. Why you should write out your speech.- 4. Writing the text of your slides.- 5. Visual Elements and Fonts.- 6. Ten ways to Begin a Presentation.- 7. Agenda and Transitions.- 8. Methodology.- 9. Results and Discussion.- 10. Conclusions.- 11. Questions and Answers.- 12. Attracting Audiences and Keeping their Attention.- 13. Handling your Nerves.- 14. Pronunciation and Intonation.- 15. Rehearsing and Self-assessment.- 16. Networking: Preparation for social events.- 17. Networking: Successful informal meetings.- 18. Posters.- 19. Advice for native English speakers on how to present at international conferences and run workshops.- 20. Useful Phrases

Rezensionen

"English for Presentations at International Conferences is designed as a manual or user guide to help readers find relevant information quickly ... . Factoids followed by the What's the Buzz? feature which includes the objectives of each chapter and specific questions pertaining to the topic at hand. ... Anyone seeking to enhance their skills and gain confidence as a scientific or academic speaker would greatly benefit from consulting this very practical manual from Adrian Wallwork." (Dana Di Pardo Léon-Henri, ASp - la revue du GERAS, Issue 70, November, 2016)

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