Structuring and designing effective academic presentations
These videos will guide you through the decisions you need to make to ensure your academic presentations are structured and designed for maximum effectiveness. These decisions should be made with the needs of your audience in mind.
The videos are suitable for face-to-face, online or video presentations, be they for assessment or for seminars/conferences.
Tutorial description
Creating presentations is a key skill for your time at university and beyond. Whilst these videos focus on academic presentations, the concepts and principles would be equally as relevant to presentations given as part of job interviews or in the workplace.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this video tutorial, you will be able to:
- Structure a presentation effectively to ensure good narrative and flow.
- Understand the assertion-evidence principle for structuring individual slides.
- Make effective decisions about presentation design.
- Design slides that do not overload and put the needs of the audience first.
Who this tutorial is for
Anyone needing to give a presentations as part of assessed work or at a seminar or conference
Facilitator
These videos have been created by an Academic & Library Specialist from the University Library Skills Team.
Videos
Presentation Structure
Slide structure
Presentation design
