ENGR 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Elevator Pitch, Computer Engineering, Reverse Engineering

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Engineering
• Course: ENGR 111
• Professor: michaelpowell

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Know the age group, demographics, prior knowledge about the topic, and what. Remember that only few people can focus for more than 20 minutes. Trim your talk so that people will ask for more information rather than thinking when will he sit down? . 4- s formula for structuring presentations. Use short sentences, avoid too many details, and do not talk too long. Use active voice and action verbs, not passive voice and to be verbs. Convey empathy, understanding, and respect for the audience. Purpose: to capture the interest of the audience. Purpose: to keep your audience interested. Purpose: to pull it all together. Keep each slide simple, with one concept per slide. As a rule, use no more than six lines per slide. Each slide should correspond to an average of 60 seconds of speech. If possible, make slides in landscape format. Present data in simple graphs rather than in lists or tables.