Making Effective Presentations

Exercises

Read Gathering Information and Organizing Your Presentation and then work on these exercises.

When you finish, click on "check your answers" to see if your answers are correct. If any of your answers were incorrect, click "Try again!!" You will see only the questions you answered incorrectly. When you finish, click "check your answers" again.

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True/False Questions

If the statement is true, type "t", and if false, type "f". If the information is not given in the passage, type "na".

1 When using a search engine, you need to choose good search terms.

2 You can use an annotated list of links to find information on a specific topic.

3 You need to go to the library to read newspapers.

4 There are only a few web sites where you can find general information.

5 At Referencedesk.org, you can find links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.

6 A library, as well as the Internet, can have useful information for your presentation.

7 As you interview, you should go straight through the list of questions you made.

8 The conclusion contains the "meat" of your presentation.

9 A topical presentation is in time order.

10 Stories are good, even if they are not closely related to your topic, because they are memorable.

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