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what you are going to learn
1. Planning your Presentation
2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation
3. Why use PowerPoint or a Handout?
4. Delivering your Presentation
1. Planning your Presentation
your presentation has a purpose and has constraints
plan to
1. achieve your purposes2. meet your constraints
1. Planning your Presentation~ purposes ~
purposes
get a job instruct students
impress your peers
convince youraudience that p
convey information
1. Planning your Presentation~ constraints ~
constraints
time
placeaudience
equipment
formal/informal?
one-way/interactive/
question period?
2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation~ Intro ~
1. Tell ‘em what you are going to tell ‘em
2. Tell it to ‘em
3. Tell ‘em what you’ve told ‘em.
Intro
Argument
Conclusion
2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation~ the Argument ~
All (good) philosophical papers and presentations arearguments of one sort of another
therefore
The structure of the presentationshould follow the structure of your argument
2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation~ the Argument ~
what is the main point you want to get across?
start there and work back,constructing your argument to
lead to that conclusion
2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation~ the Argument ~
talks and written papers are different media with different
purposes and constraints
2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation~ the Argument ~
~ how much detail? ~
Your presentation need not containeverything you want to say about a given topic
1. Too much detail can obscure the structure of your argument2. You can leave clever response to problems to the question period
It is often a good idea to leave stuff out
if it is not essential, often best to leave it out
2. Structuring a Philosophy Presentation~ the Conclusion ~
Use your conclusion
1. to remind people of:i. your main pointsii. how they fit together
2. to point out the significant/relevance of your argument
3. to gesture towards possible future developments
3. Why use PowerPoint or a Handout?
use more than one medium,engage more than one sense
not ephemeral,reference material
PowerPoint and handout must enhance a presentation
3. Why use PowerPoint or a Handout?
use the spatial potential (diagrammes etc.)
some arguments are complexand are better understood written down
3. Why use PowerPoint or a Handout?
easy to emphasize important
points/refer to important ideas
aide-memoire
advantages of PowerPoint
• can be attractive• easy to use helpful devices• easy to update • can turn into handout
disadvantages of PowerPoint
• potential for technical problems• sometimes difficult to refer back to a slide• can be used badly• semi-ephemeral
advantages of handout
• all relevant information in front of audience• something for them to hold on to
4. Delivering your Presentation
engage with your audience
don’t read yourhandout/
PowerPoint
look atyour
audience