The most important thing to remember is your essential question: You will want to communicate the answer to that question. In your presentation, share the essential question with your audience very early; tell your audience the answer to that question by the end. The body of your presentation will develop the answer. For a description of an essential question, try this site.

Public speaking is a matter of rhetoric. Develop your rhetorical knowledge and your rhetorical skills, and you will develop your public speaking skills. The best site on the Web for rhetoric is this one!

When you make a speech with the aid of a PowerPoint presentation, please understand that your public speaking skills are still very important. The PowerPoint simply supports your public speaking. You must face the audience and allow the PowerPoint to be an outline or a guide to what you are saying. To gain some insight into building PowerPoint presentations, try here.

You should also be able to assess if you have reached that goal in your presentation. In other words, did your audience understand the answer to your research question. One great way to do that is to provide a fun, online quiz for your audience to participate in. This is a great way to get your audience involved and a great way to close your presentation. There are plenty of sites that will enable you to build an online quiz and have a link that you could include in your presentation. Try this one!