This is a mini-course to be held between 16 October and 6 November, 2014 dealing with the art of oral presentation of research findings for conferences, seminars or “laboratory groups”. Although much of what is covered applies equally to presentation in Chinese or English, my emphasis, obviously, will be on the latter.

 The course will start with a session covering the general “do and do not” aspects of oral presentation, including addressing any questions you might have. You will each be asked to produce a 10 minute presentation, being given two weeks to do so. On 30 October you will hand in a disc or memory stick (to be returned to you during the course) containing any “visual” which you will use to support your oral presentation. This material will be loaded onto the computer for projection, and on 3 November you will in turn (and in a randomly selected order) each give your oral presentation. The presentations, which will be videoed, will take one day, and then on 5 and 6 November there will be feedback sessions related to your presentations, where again any questions you might have will also be dealt with. You are expected to be present throughout the presentations and the feedback sessions.

Unfortunately, I can manage only 30 participants for this mini-course and so selection may be necessary. Please register your wish to participate in the course by contacting Yunke Jia (ykjia0205@126.com) before the 12 October, providing the following information: Name and email address, Masters or Doctorate student, Year 1, 2, 3, etc. If selection is necessary, you will be notified of the result as soon as possible. For students who are not selected, they are welcome to participant in the first session on 16 October.

For any questions, please feel free to contact Miss Vera Shi (vera_shiwei@xmu.edu.cn, 2186039).