LC-1114 - Communicating Technology (o,w), Lecture, 28.2.2024-15.5.2024

Create an outline for your presentation. Use the template attached below.

Study also Language aid for presenters: metalanguage and Example outline: Recycling (both attached below).

The purpose of the outline is to help you plan the content and organisation of the presentation effectively as well as to make it easier for you to detach yourself from the written medium. Planning and practising the presentation based on an outline will help you stay on focus during the speech and give the talk in your own words. 

This stage is an often over-looked stage in presentation planning. Yet, when you do it well, you are well on your way towards a successful presentation.  

Fill in all the required information in the template:

1)     the general planning section:

-        the title

-        analysis of your audience

-        relevance of the topic to the audience, to your field

-        purpose of the talk (“What’s in it for me?”)

-        thesis/claim, i.e. the main message about the topic you wish to convey to the audience.

2)     The content of the presentation (in note form, short phrases or key words, except the introduction and conclusion):

-        introduction, written out in full language, as you would speak it.

-        names of main topic areas (as headings)

-        subtopics (as key words)

-        transitions to introduce a new main topic area or a new section of the talk (indicated in the outline template).

-        the conclusion section, written out in full language.