After successful completion of the course, students are able to generate an abstract for a presentation, to plan and design the presentation, and finally to perform the presentation. Moreover, discussing presentations of others will be trained.

Presentation and discussion of the diploma thesis concepts and training for presenting scientific results strategies for a short talk (10-15min) and plenary lectures (30-60 min) communication and rhetoric - the basics handling questions from the auditorium giving feedback without being annoying After giving a short talk (about 20 min)related to the diploma thesis, rhetoric aspects, slide layout and composition of the talk are discussed in the group. Presentations are recorded on video and handed to the student.

lecture, group discussions, presenting, listening and observing

Information on the procedure in SS2021

• The seminar will be held in virtual mode in SS2021
• Registartion to the seminar in TISS
• SS2021: Generally scheduled mondays 11-13h, access to video platform - see "Documents/Links" ( and TUWEL - for registered participants only)
• Actual schedule and registration for a presentation via TUWEL (for registered participants only)
• IMPORTANT: Only for registered participants participation in a seminar session will be logged automatically.

• participation in introductionary lecture E3
• participation at a minimum of 7 presentation dates
• delivery of an abstract: min. 1000/max. 1500 characters incl. blanks, (plain text , without title, name, affiliation), via email, latest 2 days before the presentation
• performing the presentation
• discussion/feedback of a colleague´s presentation

The certificate will be issued upon request (email to lecturer)

participation in the introductory lectures E1 and E2 of course 164.251 is particularly recommended