ABSTRACT
A presentation provides an opportunity for you to communicate your research ndings orally. Research papers and reports are usually presented in seminars, conferences or poster presentations. Such sharing of information provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback at crucial junctures in the project. Many people associate presentation with a collection of Microsoft Ofce PowerPoint slides. This has spawned a number of phrases such as ‘Death by PowerPoint’, ‘PowerPoint hell’ and ‘PowerPoint poisoning’ to describe presentations that used slides poorly. Similar phrases also apply if you are not using other presentation software effectively. The purpose of a presentation is for you to relay a message to the audience. The difference between a good and a bad presentation is determined by the effectiveness of the presenter in getting the message across. Presentation materials are there to help the presenter get his message across and not be the message itself. The relationship between the presenter, presentation material and audience is shown in Figure 23.1.
