The Basics of Scientific Presentation 1400-236PPN

How to perform a spoken presentation without stress?
How to make your speech interesting, comprehensive and scientifically correct?
How to prepare illustrations or compose a text?
And first of all - how to present to the audience exactly those bits of information we intend?
And how to ensure positive reception?
The answer for those and many other questions can be found in our course.

The objective of the classes is to acquire the basics of professional communicating skills and to practice them. The classes are intended for students who would like to master the techniques of public presentation and improve their communication skills of various subjects, including the curricula and results of their own research projects.
The classes fill the gap in academic education by emphasizing the quality of the communication, its legibility, comprehensibility and attractiveness to the audience.
During the course the knowledge is acquired mainly by personal experience in real-life-like situations.
We will practice two basic ways of communicating used in academic life: spoken presentation (report, lecture) and presentation poster.

Efficient communicating of information is one of the most important skills in our life. It often has an significant impact on the chance of success in various fields. The art of presentation should be one of the basic skills of an educated person. Its importance increases in the final stages of academic education and at the beginning of professional career.

Course Content:

" importance of efficient communication; message, reception, information handling and memorizing
" text and visual information; non-verbal communication; conversion of data type; data loss and redundance; complex communication
" useful rules and techniques; elements of NLP, presentation graphics
" presentation of scientific data
" poster as a scientific publication; creating posters
" spoken presentation (talk) and its delivery; basic mistakes in oral presentations

The participants will be asked to prepare and deliver spoken presentation which will be afterwards analyzed and commented.

Reference materials:
(No mandatory reading)

Form of assessment:
Attendance: presence at over 70% of the classes is required.
Delivery of a short spoken presentation and its analysis.

Grading rules:
Preparation (15%) and delivery (25%) of a presentation; active participation in classes esp. during critical session (i.e. presentation analysis session 60%).