Reflection on Oral Presentation
Giving good academic presentations in front of an audience may be a common issue for most students who are non-native English speakers. I have been delivered several oral presentations in individual and group scenario, but only a few attempts reached my expected effect. The ability to prepare high quality oral presentations is the competency standard for graduate engineers. Therefore, it is essential to reflect on my previous performance on oral presentations and try to develop implementation plans to overcome my weakness in the future.
Firstly, I tried to find out why the ability to give good oral presentations was so important to professional engineers. In professional engineer’s career, for example, they may need to: persuade senior management to support their proposals, debate and negotiate with co-workers, address and motivate other employees and speak to members of a community and so on. Without the ability to communicate to an audience, management theory and practice is worth little. (Carolyn et.al. 2010). But I did not realize the ability to deliver good quality oral presentations is an important attribute required by professional engineers. Usually, I treated the oral presentation as a task must be done at the university, not intended to practice and improve this necessary skill at each time. This kind behavior often be found from people who was lack of encouragement and motivation, obviously I belonged to this kind person. But I have decided to make applicable strategies to improve my oral presentation skills after some research have been done for the purpose of oral presentations.
Through the research, most books and articles have a common point was that many people feel nervous about speaking to an audience, but oral presentations can be successful with good planning and a systematic approach. The improvement of oral presentations can be achieved by focus on the key stages of a presentation: planning, preparing, practicing and presenting. (Carolyn
Firstly, I tried to find out why the ability to give good oral presentations was so important to professional engineers. In professional engineer’s career, for example, they may need to: persuade senior management to support their proposals, debate and negotiate with co-workers, address and motivate other employees and speak to members of a community and so on. Without the ability to communicate to an audience, management theory and practice is worth little. (Carolyn et.al. 2010). But I did not realize the ability to deliver good quality oral presentations is an important attribute required by professional engineers. Usually, I treated the oral presentation as a task must be done at the university, not intended to practice and improve this necessary skill at each time. This kind behavior often be found from people who was lack of encouragement and motivation, obviously I belonged to this kind person. But I have decided to make applicable strategies to improve my oral presentation skills after some research have been done for the purpose of oral presentations.
Through the research, most books and articles have a common point was that many people feel nervous about speaking to an audience, but oral presentations can be successful with good planning and a systematic approach. The improvement of oral presentations can be achieved by focus on the key stages of a presentation: planning, preparing, practicing and presenting. (Carolyn