English for Presentations at International Conferences [Paperback] Author: Adrian Wallwork | Language: English | ISBN:
1441965904 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Good presentation skills are key to a successful career in academia. This book is the first guide to giving presentations at international conferences specifically written for researchers of all disciplines whose first language is not English.
With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with examples taken from real presentations, you will learn how to:
- avoid errors in English by using short easy-to-say sentences
- improve your English pronunciation and intonation
- gain confidence, and overcome nerves and embarrassment
- plan, prepare and practice a well-organized, interesting presentation
- highlight the essential points you want your audience to remember
- deal with questions from the audience
- decide what to say at each stage of the presentation
- use standard phrases
- attract and retain audience attention
Other books in the series:
English for Writing Research Papers
English for Academic Correspondence and Socializing
English for Research: Usage, Style, and Grammar
English for Academic Research: Grammar / Vocabulary / Writing
Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 20 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and academics from 35 countries to prepare and give presentations. Since 1984 he has been revising research papers, and in 2009 he set up englishforacademics.com – a proofreading and editing service specifically for researchers.
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- Paperback: 180 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 2010 edition (August 18, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1441965904
- ISBN-13: 978-1441965905
- Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 6.1 x 9.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I am not a researcher myself, but I do have to give presentations as I work for a company that has many international customers. I found it really useful because it helped me reduce my worries about the English language by showing me that I should:
* write out what I wanted to say
* use very short sentences which are easy to say (and also easy for the audience to understand)
* focus on pronouncing key words correctly (the book suggests using the Adobe 'read aloud' function to help with pronunciation)
* write a minimal amount of text
* and much other useful advice.
The book also contains a section on 'useful phrases' i.e. the standard phrases to use in a presentation. For the first time I felt confident about my presentation, and also my boss was really satisfied. I would really recommend this book to anyone who has to make a presentation in English.
By Melanie
I found the book really useful.
It's really inspiring. It explains how do make convincing presentations that get the audience attention.
It's not only that. People go to presentations, and conferences in general, not just to be informed about hot topics in their research area. I believe that a crucial factor is also to meet key people in the hope of setting up a collaboration. I am an economist and in this book I found a wealth of information telling me how to write and deliver the kind of presentation that will motivate members of the audience to come and up and speak to me at the end of the presentation and/or during social events. The only comment I would make is that it would have been nice to have had more input on how to use Powerpoint, but given that this book is primarily on the English language part of presentations, then I suppose that would have been beyond the scope of the book.
By Mat
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