“How to deliver an effective oral presentation”
by
Dr. Robert P. Yagelski
University at Albany, SUNY, U.S.A.
The lecture will take place on 13 October 2022
in room K2-1 at 11:30 am
About the lecturer:
Robert P. Yagelski is the Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of English Education. He was also Founding Director of the Program in Writing and Critical Inquiry, which he helped establish in 2013 as part of UAlbany’s new General Education program and directed until 2022.
He has taught courses in writing, composition theory and pedagogy, critical pedagogy, qualitative research methods, and the history of rhetoric. Professor Yagelski served as director of the Capital District Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project (2003 – 2017).
His recent research focuses on understanding the ontological dimensions of writing and the transformative capacity of writing, with an emphasis on the connection between writing and well-being. He has also studied formal error in the writing of adolescent students and the analytical strategies college students employ in their writing.
Professor Yagelski is the author of Writing as a Way of Being: Writing Instruction, Nonduality, and the Crisis of Sustainability (Hampton Press, 2011), Literacy Matters: Writing and Reading the Social Self (Teachers College Press, 2000), numerous articles, and several writing textbooks.
About the lecture:
This lecture deals with making and delivering an effective oral presentation; structuring a presentation, useful expressions to be used during the presentation, using visual aids, dealing with stage fright and questions as well as the issue of the importance of non-verbal elements.
