PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTING a TOPIC?

What’s the Subject?

DO you have enough pictures?

Do you have enough material?

Be creative

Avoid overwhelming information

Convincing presentations

In Presentations:

Be enthusiastic; your energy and zeal will be infectious.

Your message should be clear and both extremes, veiling information and information overload, are to be avoided.

ONE BIG IDEA and THREE KEY POINTS should cover the whole presentation.

Tell a story: people become involved and turn less critical

Use some very captivating words, though an avalanche of  tough words and terms is not required.

Use some titillating quotes that upset the convention

Create stunning slides

Use one idea per slide

Make a Clear Call to Action

References:

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW. JULY 29, 2015. John Coleman

Mark McGuinness  simon_presentation_skills_UK . Website Insights on making ideas happen

by Bēhance

Syllabus with Language Lab

Essentials of Communication

(HAS-111)

BTech I/II Semester

No. of Credits: 4	Sessional: 40 Marks
L T P Total	Theory   : 60 Marks
4 0 0  4	Total      : 100 Marks
	Duration of Exam: 3 Hours

                                                           

Unit –I- COMPREHENSION & COMPOSITION

Excerpt from John Updike’s Cosmic Gall; Paragraphs/Essays; Unseen Passage & Comprehension exercises derived from features, articles and editorials; exercises in creative writing and impromptu/extempore speech; Anecdotes/stories; Deconstructing & Re-framing Quotes; Verse composition;Dialogue-writing; Story-building and storyboards; travelogue

                                                                                                                       

Unit-II-TECHNICAL WRITING

Format of Long Reports, Interoffice Memorandum, Format and layout of a typical business letter; Covering letter and Resume; Analytical and Descriptive writing.

                                                                                                                       

Unit –III- SEMANTICS & SYNTAX

One-word substitutes, Idioms & Proverbs, Vocabulary building; Crosswords, Sentence Correction/Editing.

                                                                                                                       

Resources:

• National dailies like Hindu, HT, TOI, Tribune (e-versions available)
• Magazines like NatGeo, Outlook, India Today
• Raman, Meenakshi and Sangeeta Sharma. Technical Communication. Oxford: 2011
• Wehmeier, Sally .Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Oxford UP.8 th edition.
• Ghosh, BN. Managing Soft Skills for Personality Development.Tata McGraw-Hill 2012
• Rizvi, M Ashraf. Effective Technical Communication. Tata Mc Graw-Hill.2005
• Bretag, Crossman and Bordia.Communication Skills. Tata Mc Graw-Hill.2009
• Blogs: Eng_lessons_dj.blogspot.com
• Renaissanceymcaust.blogspot.com

                                                   Language Lab (HAS 112)

Audit course	Internal: 30 Marks
L T P Total	External: 20 Marks
0 0 2  2	Total      : 50 Marks

           

CORPORATE INTERACTION & COMMUNICATION

I.                    Presentations

II.                  Listening Skills & Language Lab (Practical) Interviews of Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, Steve Jobs and other scientists and technocrats. Other inspiring speeches on diverse issues; Audio/Video Lessons and Observation

III.               Group Discussions, Corporate Dialogue: Conflict-Resolution exercises; Role Play; Mock-interviews.

IV.              Internal Assessment: based on participation, short presentation & performance in interactive exercises: competence gauged through participation in various events organized in the classroom and at university level throughout the semester.

                                                                                                                                   

Cosmic Gall by John Updike

Cosmic Gall

John Updike

Neutrinos they are very small.

They have no charge and have no mass

And do not interact at all.

The earth is just a silly ball

To them, through which they simply pass,

Like dustmaids down a drafty hall

Or photons through a sheet of glass.

They snub the most exquisite gas,

Ignore the most substantial wall,

Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,

Insult the stallion in his stall,

And, scorning barriers of class,

Infiltrate you and me! Like tall

And painless guillotines, they fall

Down through our heads into the grass.