Presentation and Communication

1. Presentation and Communication Content: • Model of Communication • How is the structure of a project report? • How to make references • How to structure an analyse of the working process • Illustrations • How to write • Oral presentations • Example from last years P0 seminar • Exercise

2. Model of Communication • Communication is when somebody tries to tell somebody else something one way or the other

3. Planning what to ”send” • What is my point? Message • Why do i want to tell? Purpose • Who is to know? Receiver • How should i tell it? Media • Where and when should it be told? Situation

4. Be aware of disturbances (noise) • Different Languages • What the receiver knows already • Too much information • How to arrange the information • Speed • Tone and body language • Needs and interests • Expectations • Prejudice of sender and subject

5. How is the structure of a project report? • FrontPage – often with a picture/illustration • Title page – with all relevant information • Preface – guidance, acknowledge • Contents – to get an overview of the project • Chapter 1 – remember references • : • Chapter n – remember references • Literature • Appendix – what you have accomplished • Enclosure – ”copies” from others

6. How to make references • The Harvard method (Jensen, 2001a:21) http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/harvard.html • By numbers [2] Literature is the listed alphabetic (1) or numbered (2). We have to know all possible information's to be able to find the quoted source: Books: Author(s), year, title, publisher, ISBN or ISSN no. Journals: As above + name of journal, number and date Internet: URL and date for downloading Persons: Name, title, company

7. How to structure an analyse of the working process • Expectations to the P0 period • Start by describing the group’s expectation to the P0 period. • How did you do during the P0 period? • Then describe how the working process was during the P0 period without trying to analyse it. • Analysing the P0 period – what did you learn? • Now you analyse the working process by listing all the good experiences and all the bad experiences. • For all the good experiences you then comment on why they where good and how you will improve in the P1 period. • For all the bad experiences you comment on why it went wrong and how you could “transform” it into a better experience in P1, or if that’s not possible then put it on a list of things you should avoid during the P1 period.

8. Illustrations • A picture can tell more than a thousand words – but only if it is a good illustration of the subject • Some examples

9. How to write • Preparation: receiver, message, outline • Brainstorm: 5 min and structuring (e.g.. Post-it) • Go for it (write): 15 min without criticism • Structure what you have written and make headlines • Write again – one headline at a time in arbitrary order • Edit – go for overview and easy to read

10. Oral presentations – getting the massage through • Use the model of communication to consider what to do • Use illustrations but think about the receiver • Make sure you are aware of what your message is • Be sure to mention what is your point(s) • Be aware of your body language • Address the other groups and the supervisors • Make a test of the groups presentation

11. Oral presentations- how to prepare it • Blackboard • write nice and clear • plan the layout • Overhead or PowerPoint: • use big letters • sharp and clear illustrations and figures • not too much information on one slide • don't use copies from the report, make another figure • only one point on each slide

12. Oral presentations- body language • Be aware of your body language – often there is a contradiction between what you say and what your body tells • Some examples

13. What should you tell at the P0-seminar: • The background for your projects (why is it relevant) • Your main problem • Main methods • Main theories (if available) • Strategy for design and implementation • Method for validation • Time schedule • What you have learned about teamwork (the POL course). A good idea would be three lists: • Things we do well • Things we have to avoid • Things we have to improve or do otherwise

14. Exercise • How did you do the writing in your group until now? (individually, 2 or 3 persons together, the whole group together) Discus advantages and disadvantages doing the writing in different ways. • What do you think will be the ideal writing process for your group? • According to this lectures advices about how to write you should try to “plan” how to write one of the chapters of your project report that has not been written yet (identify the purpose and objectives of the chapter and make a list of headwords).