Students self-assessment of the importance of presentation skills.

The paper gives an insight at students' opinion on the need for presentation skills, as they become more important in everyday life and especially at the workplace. Those skills should be practiced from the early age so that when they reach study, students have no problems with feeling stage fright and nervousness. Majority of students think that educational institutions should prepare students for presenting. Also, the research will show that relatively big percentage of students didn't attend any kind of education regarding presentation skills. When presenting, various elements should be considered. Such as creation and design of the presentation itself, its production in one of the tools, the content that must be logically structured, the use of language that must be clear and the diction correct, the very appearance of the person presenting, non-verbal communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]