This document provides guidance on preparing and delivering an effective demonstration presentation. It discusses selecting a topic that can be demonstrated, developing the presentation outline using an introduction, body, and conclusion structure. The body should have 2-5 main points with explanations and demonstrations. Visual aids are important to support the verbal explanation. When delivering, use an extemporaneous style while referring to outline notes. Maintain engagement with the audience through your demonstration of the topic.

1. Building Your Presentation From The Ground Up! Rob Craig rob.craig@cpcc.edu 704-330-4139

2. Or, Everything You Wanted To Know About A Demonstration But Were Afraid To Ask ……… Rob Craig rob.craig@cpcc.edu 704-330-4139

3. It’s The Overview, Baby…… First, we learn the basics. Second, we figure out exactly what a demonstration is and what it’s not.

4. It’s The Overview, Baby…… Third, we’ll look at a presentation checklist. Lastly, we’ll focus on what to strive for in the delivery of your demonstration.

5. The Basics The Introduction The Body The Conclusion

6. The Introduction First, Grab the Attention of Your Audience A question? A story? A joke? A shocking statistic? A quote?

9. Transitions Move the listeners from one point into another Generally referred to as transitions or connectives We call them “Bridges” Texts often refer to them as “internal summaries” or “internal previews” or both.

11. Transitions transition I. II. For example, if we have: I. Abe Lincoln’s Childhood II. Abe Lincoln’s Early Failures Then our bridge will be, “Now that you understand a little about Abe Lincoln’s childhood, let’s learn about some of his early failures”. Don’t Forget: Place bridges into your outline and then your speaker notes

12. Transitions transition I. II. Simple transitions After Intro (Opening Transitions) “Let’s look at my first point. . . . Before Conclusion (Closing Transitions) “In conclusion . . . .” “Before we go. . . .” “Let’s wrap up” . . . .” PRACTICE THESE THINGS! If you don’t, you won’t remember them

13. The Conclusion Try to remember to verbally indicate that you’re concluding your presentation “In Conclusion…” “To Wrap Up…” “In Review…” Make sure you recap all of your main points. Close your presentation with impact. Stories Quotes Something clever relating back to the Attention Step

14. So, What’s a Demonstration?

15. The Nature of a Demonstration Put simply, you demonstrate , (think glorified “show and tell”), for the listeners, in a hands-on way, how something is done.

16. Alternatively, some students will deliver a process presentation, which doesn’t show the audience how to do something as much as it tells them how to do it. The Nature of a Demonstration

17. For example, a presentation on how to improve your diet is a process speech because it can’t be demonstrated “hands-on” although it’ll still teach us how to do something. The Nature of a Demonstration

18. The Nature of a Demonstration What we do: We demonstrate each of the steps in our presentation supported by both appropriate visual aids as well as verbal explanation.

19. The Nature of a Demonstration For instance, a presentation on how to putt a golf ball or how to make homemade Mac and Cheese is always better demonstrated and supported by explanation.

20. The Nature of a Demonstration It would be a mistake to try to communicate the details in these topics by just explaining them and not visually showing the steps involved. There’d be significantly less audience understanding. Common sense almost demands to be “hands-on” to be effectively understood.

21. Let’s Talk About…. Topic Selection Criteria Presentation Checklist A/V Presentational Aids

22. Selecting A Topic Pick something you already know Pick something that you like Pick something that might engage the audience Pick something that’s feasible for 5-7 minutes in a college classroom

23. Presentation Checklist Select Topic Write the Purpose Statement Formulate the Presentation’s Main Points A minimum of two and a maximum of five Write the Presentation’s Central Idea Also known as the Thesis Statement

25. Preview the Main Points of the Presentation

29. Always keep time.

31. Your Outline First, you submit your Demonstration outline to me. Second, once you’ve received the outline back from me, you’ll revise it according to my feedback. Lastly, you’ll hand it in to me just prior to your presentation on the date of your speech. You’ll adapt it for it to serve as your. . . .

32. Your Speaker Notes For speaker notes, you’ll shorten the main and minor point sentences in your presentation outline to create a keyword outline for your notes. Make short phrases instead For instance, in the sentence outline you submitted to me, the first main point might read, “The first step in making Chocolate Chip cookies is to gather the correct ingredients”. In a keyword outline, used as speaker notes, it might be shortened to read, “Gather Ingredients”.

33. The Style of Delivery While many of us think that most speeches are read from scripts or memorized, that’s actually not true.

34. The Style of Delivery In our class, we use an extemporaneous style of delivery, which means that we’ll talk to our audience as if we were conversing with them. Though it’s conversational, it’s still prepared and rehearsed. It’s just not memorized or read word-for-word.

35. Visual Aids Any of the props or objects you have will be considered Visual Aids. Any physical demonstration that we see you do, it’s considered to be a visual aid. If needed, you can create a Powerpoint presentation if you need a lot of text-based visual support.

36. It’s The Review, Baby…… First, we learned what a demonstration is and what it’s not. Second, we examined a presentation checklist.

37. It’s The Review, Baby…… Third, we looked at some goals for each of the three parts of your presentation Lastly, learned what to strive for in the delivery of your demonstration.

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