5 tips to make your paper/essay defense better
BY David Gutierrez
Paper defense is no less important than its creation. No matter how good you are at essay writing, you have to remember that you also have to be able to explain your paper to the tutor, defend the thesis by providing proper arguments and also answer teacher’s questions – both those regarding the contents and the form of your essay. Sometimes well-written and prepared paper has low rating only because of student’s diffidence. But in most cases it happens due to the lack of preparation. Students aren’t ready for catch question, forget the most important data from their paper and have a fail at long last.
Everything depends on you. How to make your paper defense successful?
- Preliminary preparation.
Student needs to rehearsal paper defense at home. It is important to highlight conceptual core of the work and formulate it by your own words. You should keep writing according to the literary language and the scientific style of speech. There must be three parts: introduction, major part and conclusion like in thesis. Write it on the other paper and read few times, then try not to look into your notes while you’re telling. Remember that a good speech consist not only from text, but also your listeners’ reception. While you’re speaking, imagine that you want to ‘sell’ your text to ‘buyers’ who are sitting in front of you. It gives a confidence boost to the report.
- PowerPoint presentation.
It is most effective way to hold audience spellbound. You should keep logic of information feed. Images must illustrate your words and consist of short text explanations. The most horrifying thing in the presentation are yellow letters on the white background. Will teacher see what is written? It makes him think that you are ‘without a soul’ and don’t respect him. You need to create beautiful presentation, which can ‘sell’ your information to the groupmates and teacher. What can we advise? Use the original templates on the website poweredtemplate.com. Be sure, presentation which is pleasant to look at will make your paper defense better.
- Do not try to look smarter than you really are.
Student must understand what do he say. Teachers probably know all the material not worse than you, they are fed up with stock-in-trade. Show your own examples from life or scientific literature which will illustrate topic of your report. It convinceі qualifying commission that the author of the essay write the work by himself. A good idea is to add your own conclusions related to the theme of your work.
- Use hand-outs.
Report will be more understandable to the audience when they see some thesis from your work with their own eyes. It can be illustrations, photos, audio, video, you can even print some slides from PowerPoint presentation and give it to the professor and few examples to your audience. Also this will draw attention away from you for a while, so you could spy into your notes.
- Don’t worry, be happy.
Psych yourself up for success. If you follow our advice, you haven’t any reasons to worry. Have a good night’s sleep, set yourself up for best mark and paper defense will pass entirely without incident.
Good text, bright presentation and confidence in yourself are the main keys to successful paper defense. Follow simple recommendations and be ready for the highest mark.
Author’s bio:
David Gutierrez has worked in the field of web design since 2005. Right now he started learning Java in order to get second occupation. His professional interests defined major topics of his articles. David writes about new web design software, recently discovered professional tricks and also monitors the latest updates of the web development.
