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Independent StudyWorkshop 5 – Oral Presentation Skills

Local Lecturer: Sharon Lam

Email: sharon.lam@hkuspace.hku.hk

Oral Proposal Presentation

(1) Oral presentation, A4/1 pagesummary – both-side accepted (10%)

Provide sufficient copies (3 copies) for examiners

Turnitin

Coursework Submission Form

(2) 1,000-word proposal (10%) Submit proposal to your supervisor at the end of your oral

presentation (“Late Policy” will be applied!)

Turnitin (“Late Policy” will be applied!)

Coursework Submission Form (“Late Policy” will be applied!)

Oral Assessment Criteria• 30 minutes for each student:

10 minutes: Verbal presentation

10 minutes: Q& A

10 minutes: Feedbacks from examiners

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Oral Assessment Criteria

A good candidate will have:• a firm idea of the specific area they wish to study

• a clear understanding of their research objectives

• undertaken a sound level of initial research and literaturereview in their selected topic

• selected an appropriate research methodology for thistopic

• be able to explain their proposal within the 10 minutetime frame allocated

• respond confidently to questions in another 10 minutes

What we expect…

Present Ideas Clearly

Good tone and manner

Eye contact/ body language

Well-structured content

Good time management

Confident

Professional manner & look

Good use of summary page

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Present Ideas ClearlyHow? With an A4 paper only.

Provide a summary on an A4 paper (1 page – butboth side accepted) with bullet points of yourpresentation in an organized flow and structure.

Prepare sufficient copies to the examiners (3 copies;typed; colored if appropriate)

Make good use of figures/ tables/ charts, etc.

Reference list should be included.

With good introduction and conclusion clear introduction and state the topic title clearly

summarize the presentation in a precise and concise way

re-cap main ideas of your project in a memorable way motivate the audience to respond in positive ways provide closure

Present Ideas ClearlyTips:• Grab ATTENTION (first 30

seconds) with good introduction

• Gain good impression within 3minutes (nice study rationale & clearresearch objectives) to create

INTEREST

• Keep good momentum for another 5minutes (with well-structured content

such as clear & detailed literaturereview and well explained research

methodology) to create DESIRE

• Wrap up with good

CONCLUSION (Well, you really

deserve a good mark!)

Marking GridOral Presentation 

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Q&A Session

Connect Your Audience

Q&A SessionTips:

• Predict questions before theday.

• Listen the questions carefully.

• Avoid hesitation.

• No long answers, answerprecisely (1-2 minutes).

• Ask examiner to repeatquestion if you really cannotcatch it.

• Clarify with examples.• Avoid simply repeating the

same contents that you have

just presented.• Be open-minded when there

are disagreement.• Keep good attitude!

Feedback Session• Prepare to write down feedbacks for

improvement and amendment.

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Exercise

• Please discuss in a group and prepare aA4 summary sheet for the sampleproposal.

• Each group should appoint a member forpresentation.

• Students will be invited to participate indemo presentation.

• Identification of strengths and weaknesses.

• Discussion and feedbacks.

Are you ready?

Practice Makes Perfect!

Marking GridProposal 

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Second Individual Meeting

Prepare amendments afterreceiving some feedbacksduring the presentation.

e.g. Revised proposale.g. Draft questionnaire

Ask Questions!