During your undergraduate education at Bilkent, you will often be asked to present your semester projects to your classmates and your instructor. In English classes in particular, a lot of the grade will depend on your presentation and communication skills as much as on the content of the project you are presenting.
Academic presentations have different structural and rhetorical requirements from other talks you may have seen, such as YouTube videos or TED talks. The links below will help you to understand these requirements.
- Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor Of Sociology, University Of California gives advice on how to give a “fabulous” academic presentation: https://www.wiley.com/network/researchers/promoting-your-article/6-tips-for-giving-a-fabulous-academic-presentation
- Aditi Javheri from the Polytechnic University English Language Center gives an overview of how to make your presentation performance both academic and engaging (see video below):
- Yan Overfield Shaw from the FAE program has also written some resources to help students prepare for and practice an outstanding academic presentation in English:
- Creating content:
http://staff.bilkent.edu.tr/yoverfieldshaw/presenting-discussing/presentations-creating-content/ - Effective delivery:
http://staff.bilkent.edu.tr/yoverfieldshaw/presenting-discussing/presentations-effective-delivery/ - Q&A sessions:
http://staff.bilkent.edu.tr/yoverfieldshaw/presenting-discussing/qa-sessions/
- Creating content: