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Giving an Academic Presentation in English

Intermediate Level

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  • Insights based on the author’s presentations as well as observing of thousands of congress presentations
  • Exercises based on 1000+ hours of teaching scientific English and English for Academic Purposes
  • Simple, practical, informative, and fun

Part of the book series: English for Academic Research (EAR)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. The key aims of a presentation

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 1-13
  3. Resources: Presentations on TED and YouTube

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 15-28
  4. Pronunciation, intonation, and speed of voice

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 49-61
  5. Titles

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 63-73
  6. Agenda

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 99-112
  7. Explaining technical slides

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 113-137
  8. The visual aspect of slides

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 139-162
  9. The conclusions and final slide

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 163-179
  10. Q&A Session

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 181-188
  11. Doing presentations online

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 189-204
  12. Practising, improving, and getting feedback

    • Adrian Wallwork
    Pages 205-221
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 223-238

About this book

This book is for university students, with at least a mid-intermediate level of English.

It can be used as part of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, either alone or with the companion volume Writing an Academic Paper in English.

The chapters are independent so that EAP teachers and students can choose those sections that best fit their needs. This means that a course could range from a minimum of 20 hours, up to 60 hours or more.

There is an introductory chapter that includes what role academics play in today’s world, where success is not just measured in terms of paper output and presentations at conferences, but also in involvement interdisciplinary projects and supporting society at large.

Each chapter covers either a particular skill (e.g. preparing a script, pronunciation, visuals, how to begin and end a presentation) or the particular purpose of a specific moment in a presentation. For example, the final slide is designed not just to conclude and thank the audience, but is an opportunity to reach out for collaborations and assistance. The aims of each part of a presentation are also highlighted by comparisons with non-academic situations where similar skills are required.

The course is highly practical with screenshots from real presentations given by PhD students. It is also designed to be fun to use.

Other books in the series:

Writing an Academic Paper in English

Essential English Grammar and Communication Strategies

 

Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 40 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and researchers from around 50 countries to write research papers and give presentations. He is also the co-founder of e4ac.com, an editing agency for non-native English-speaking researchers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • English for Academics, Pisa, Italy

    Adrian Wallwork

About the author

Adrian Wallwork is the co-founder of English for Academics (e4ac.com), which specializes in editing and revising scientific papers, as well as teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to PhD students. He has written course books for Oxford University Press, discussion books for Cambridge University Press, and other books for BEP and Scholastic and several publishers in Italy. Adrian also self-publishes discussion books for the TEFL market (tefldiscussions.com). 

For SpringerNature, he has written three series of books on Academic English, Business English and General English.

His passion is teaching PhD students and researchers how to write and present their research.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Giving an Academic Presentation in English

  • Book Subtitle: Intermediate Level

  • Authors: Adrian Wallwork

  • Series Title: English for Academic Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95609-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95608-0Published: 24 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95609-7Published: 23 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2625-3445

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-3453

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 238

  • Number of Illustrations: 275 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Linguistics, general, Language Education

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 24.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 32.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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