This is a mini-course to be held between 25 October and 17 or 18 November, 2016 dealing with the art of oral presentation of research findings for conferences, seminars or “laboratory groups”. Although much of what is covered applies equally to presentation in Chinese or English, my emphasis, obviously, will be on the latter.

The course will start with an introductory session covering the general “do and do not” aspects of oral presentation, including addressing any questions you might have. You will each be asked to produce a 10 minute presentation, being given three weeks to do so. However, on 8 November you will hand in a memory stick (to be returned to you during the course) containing any “visuals” which you will use to support your oral presentation. This material will be loaded onto the computer for projection, and on 15 November you will in turn (and in a randomly selected order) each give your oral presentation. The presentations, which will be videoed, will take one day, and then on 17 November (and possibly 18 November in the morning) there will be feedback sessions related to your presentations, where again any questions you might have will also be dealt with. You are expected to be present throughout all the presentations and feedback sessions.