How to present a seminar paper I. What is a seminar? One student gives ideas which are discussed by other students. II. Two stages of presenting a seminar A. (1) ______________ 1. researching 2. writing up a topic B. Presentation 1. Two ways a. (2) _______________ copies of your paper beforehand b. r eading aloud the paper in class 2. Introduce your papers -- The participants may have forgotten some points in your paper. -- The participants may (3) ______________________ to read your paper. 3. Do not read the whole paper aloud - - not enough time for discussion. - - lack of (4)________________________. - - boring C. Procedure 1 Decide on a time (5) __________________for your talk and stick to it. 2 Write out your spoken presentation in the way you are going to speak. 3 Stick to the major points and (6)____________________details. 4 Do your best to make your presentation (7)_________________, but do not tell jokes and anecdotes 5 Write out and (8) ___________________ what you intend to say until you would not make any error. 6 Make outline notes so that you can find your way easily from it to the full notes when you forgot something. 7 Speak from the outline notes at the seminar. 8 Make eye contact with your audience and judge their (9)_______________. 9 Repeat your main points briefly and invite (10)___________________in order to make a strong ending.