Kinds of Presentation
What is
Presentation?
Speech or talk in which
a new product, idea or
piece of work is shown
and explained to an
audience…

Kinds Of Presentation
• Informative Presentation
• Persuasive Presentation
• Entertaining Presentation
• Technical Presentation

Informative Presentation
In an informative presentation
you
• Explain something to people
• Help people to understand
something
• Show them how to do
something

Points to remember
• You have to remember that the whole purpose of
your presentation is to teach the audience
something that they don't already know.
• The audience need time to take in what you've
said.
• If you speak too quickly your audience will be
trying to understand one sentence while you're
speaking the next sentence!

Examples
• The presentation given by the head of an
organization
• A computer programmer speaking about new
software
• A travelogue about the tour
• A teacher telling students about something

Persuasive Presentation
The persuasive presentation
is
• To sell an audience on an
idea
• To promote a specific
product
• To convince someone to
take action
• You want them To think,
act and believe in what you
want them to

Points to remember
• Make use of graphs and supporting documentation
• Present some facts and figures but make sure
that they're accurate and that they support your
point of view.
• If there have been similar problems you can tell
your audience how they were solved.
• Try to make it personal to your listeners, if it's
going to effect their family, home or job they will
start to take notice.

Examples
• Improve your health through better eating
• Television violence is negatively influencing our
children
• Become a volunteer and change the world

Entertaining
Presentation
Entertaining presentation are
• Usually short
• Giving the audience an
enjoyable experience
• Leave the audience with a
favorable impression not
only of himself or herself,
but also of the
organization
• To amuse through humors,
stories or illustrations

Purpose of entertaining
Presentation
• Crowd pleaser
• Get promotion
• Hold attention

Points to remember
• The presentation still must make a valid point or
argument, but it can be done using humor
• A Presentation to entertain may be either
informative or persuasive in nature, but the
supporting materials are selected primarily based
on their entertainment value.

Examples
• After dinner speech
• Comic monologues

Technical presentation
The technical presentation
involves
• Visuals and printed
handouts
• Even videotape
• This is informative

Points to remember
• This is informative but goes beyond simple
information.
• It may be a presentation to peers at a
professional meeting
• May be an official presentation to a group such as
regulatory body

Brief remarks
It is actually the category of the presentation,
which are given on special occasions as expression
of thanks, welcome or acceptance.

Breif remarks
They are not scripted. Speaker give the remarks in
his or her own words. But if it is a highly official
function, it is better to use a script.

Planning for presentation
A proper planning is required before a presentation
• Choose the topic
• Do some research
• Remember the information you are going to
provide to your audience should be new and
valuable
• The information should be accurate

4P’s for presentation
. plan
. prepare
. practice
. present

Guidelines for planning
• Purpose of the speech
• Decide what you wish to speak about
a) Instruct and inform
b) Convince, persuade, influence or motivate
c) Amuse and entertain
• What are the objectives of your speech
• Know your audience

Memorizing
• Delivering a word-for-word
memorized speech is very difficult,
and I don't advise novice speakers to
do it. Memorizing puts too much
pressure on you, and unless you're an
exceptionally fine deliverer, it will
sound memorized.

Reading
• Reading a written speech has similar
pitfalls. Unless your writing is superb
and you are a true prose stylist, it's
usually a mistake to read verbatim.

Impromptu
• If you've become known as a speaker,
people will sometimes ask you to
stand up and give a talk on the spur
of the moment. (And this can happen
no matter what your status as a
speaker is.)…