Chapter 21

Oral presentations are very important everywhere in life. Presenting yourself changes or emphasizes people’s views and judgments related to you. An oral presentation involves careful consideration during the actual presentation, but more importantly, before the actual presentation. The planning process for an oral presentation will give you a better structure for the presentation as a whole and let you feel more comfortable while presenting. You must analyze the audience and purpose of the presentation, organize the presentation logically, prepare for the presentation, use presentation software effectively, and deliver a confident, professional presentation all together. Most consider the actual delivery of an oral presentation is the most difficult hurdle. Whether anxiety takes effect on an individual or not, the delivery is what persuades the audience most. In my opinion, you could be giving a presentation on the most random, irrelevant, useless topic but prepare your heart out, give the most confident speech possible and persuade more than you’d expect. This chapter expresses all the different types of oral presentations and persuasive presentations are just one of the five talked about. However, I still stand by my idea that, if the presenter seems to truly believe in what he or she is presenting, the audience is that much more likely to feel the same.