{"id":5999,"date":"2020-02-13T03:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.uncc.edu\/aaron-toscano\/?page_id=5999"},"modified":"2020-02-13T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:10:00","slug":"oral-presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/topicstoanalyze\/oral-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;re on this page because you need to do an oral presentation, and I want to help you by going over some important aspects of public speaking. The presentations you do may be for a class, for the community, for your cats, or for whomever. The secret to doing oral presentations well is&#8230;practice.  Below are some questions about oral presentations for discussion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are some common presentation pitfalls?<\/li><li>Why is understanding your purpose so important?<\/li><li>What are some questions you should ask about your audience?<\/li><li>What type of delivery method will work best for you or you and your group\u2014memorized, reading (scripted), notes, or impromptu?<\/li><li>What are some advantages and disadvantages of the above delivery methods?<\/li><li>What\u2019s important to keep in mind about visuals (which you must use?<\/li><li>How should you manage your presentation style?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is a class presentation, please have an overview. Spend 15-20 secs telling the audience (us) what you&#8217;re going to discuss in your presentation. Introduce them to the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t just jump into your presentation like this guy&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rhetoric, an Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, this is a very limited introduction, but below are major terms for rhetoric that might help our discussion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Ethos:<\/strong> the presentation of one&#8217;s character (usually to show the speaker\/author is credible) <\/li><li><strong>Pathos:<\/strong> appeal to emotions <\/li><li><strong>Logos:<\/strong> appeal to reason or logic <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Discussion on Style<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In school contexts, we&#8217;re used to thinking about correct vs. incorrect, but much of what we learn is really style. For instance, which is correct:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Egg, milk and cheese<br>Eggs, milk, and cheese<\/li><li>My uncle bequeathed his property, cars and houses.<br>My uncle bequeathed his property, cars, and houses.<\/li><li>syllabi vs syllabuses<br>alumni vs alumnuses<\/li><li>Taxes were raised.<br>Congress raised taxes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rhetorical Moves for Creative Presentations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you find yourself needing to be more creative (as opposed to formal for a job situation), how can you best reach your audience? I&#8217;m going to ask you to pair up and discuss a few things. Let&#8217;s consider the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What&#8217;s your hook? How do you grab their attention?<\/li><li>Have you considered diction?<ul><li>Elevated, grand style<\/li><li>Revival style<\/li><li>Terse, poetic style (minimalist)<\/li><li>Profanity<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Use appropriate metaphors to illuminate your discussion<ul><li>&#8220;As barren as Harris Teeter shelves when an inch of snow is in Charlotte&#8217;s forecast&#8230;&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;Like a moth to a flame, I gravitated to&#8230;&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;I felt like a fish out of water when I entered the room&#8230;&#8221;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Your history<ul><li>How old are you?<\/li><li>Where were you born?<\/li><li>Where did you grow up?<\/li><li>Siblings&#8230;parents&#8230;pets&#8230;neighbors<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Repetition vs. Redundancy<ul><li><em>Chiasmus<\/em>:<br>*Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.<br>*Asking what your country can do for you is inappropriate, so you ought to ask what you can do for your country.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Book Ends, coming full circle<ul><li>Ask a question you answer at the end<\/li><li>End on a topic, idea, reference, etc. that you mention at the start of your presentation<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Truth is often Stranger than Fiction, but&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard the expression that &#8220;truth is often stranger than fiction,&#8221; but, unfortunately, &#8220;truth&#8221; isn&#8217;t always as interesting or believable. There&#8217;s a strange irony to the fact that some exact descriptions of event don&#8217;t seem&#8230;real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Aim for impressions and not exact steps or sequence of events<\/li><li>For instance, for admission to graduate school, you often have to write an essay about how your education of life led you to want to be in a program. You wouldn&#8217;t narrate your exact steps like&#8230;<ul><li>I was born&#8230;<\/li><li>I went to elementary school, middle school, high school&#8230;<\/li><li>I saw a brochure on culinary schools&#8230;<\/li><li>My dad took me to the culinary school open house&#8230;<\/li><li>He forbid me to go&#8230;<\/li><li>I eventually majored in X in college&#8230;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Exact details are less important than capturing a mood<\/li><li>Amalgamations of people, think personas<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Lesson from the great Film <em>Sideways<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is the screenplay excerpt of the first wine tasting scene from the film <em>Sideways<\/em> (probably one of my top 5&#8211;definitely top 10&#8211;favorite films). Read <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptpipeline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sideways.pdf#page=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the script excerpt (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>the script excerpt<\/strong><\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RBzJR4Emxvo?t=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"watch the film clip (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>watch the film clip<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MILES:<\/strong> Don&#8217;t be shy. Get your nose in there.  Jack now buries his nose in the glass.<br><strong>MILES:<\/strong>  What do you smell?<br><strong>JACK:<\/strong>  I don&#8217;t know. Wine? Fermented grapes?<br>[Miles smells.]<br><strong>MILES:<\/strong>  There&#8217;s not much there yet, but you can still find&#8230;<br>[more sniffs]<br>&#8230;a little citrus&#8230; maybe some  strawberry&#8230; passion fruit&#8230; and there&#8217;s even a hint of like asparagus&#8230; or like a nutty Edam  cheese.<br>[Jack smells again and begins to brighten.]<br><strong>JACK:<\/strong>  Huh. Maybe a little strawberry. Yeah, strawberry. I&#8217;m not so sure about the cheese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What does the film add for more authentic dialogue?<\/li><li>What tone does Miles have? (stern, excited, academic, etc.)<\/li><li>Contrast that with this description of wine from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"later in the film (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1EMGidHciHU?t=4032\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>later in the film<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Because I can't resist this scene... (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KXXDC5FarhE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Because I can&#8217;t resist this scene&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!!!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"t's scientifically proven that marriage gets worse. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/2262-marriage-worse.html\" target=\"_blank\">t&#8217;s scientifically proven that marriage gets worse.<\/a><\/strong> Good luck on your performances. I&#8217;ll see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re on this page because you need to do an oral presentation, and I want to help you by going over some important aspects of public speaking. The presentations you do may be for a class, for the community, for your cats, or for whomever. The secret to doing oral presentations well is&#8230;practice. Below are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"parent":2019,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5999","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2HAOx-1yL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5999\/revisions\/6003"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-toscano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}