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How to Give an Oral Presentation

A part of the CURO Resource s eries. How to Give an Oral Presentation. Outline. Oral Session Guidelines Purpose and Audience (What and who) Content and Organization Visual Presentation (balance, balance, balance) Oral Presentation “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?”

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How to Give an Oral Presentation

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  1. A part of the CURO Resource series How to Give an Oral Presentation

  2. Outline • Oral Session Guidelines • Purpose and Audience (What and who) • Content and Organization • Visual Presentation (balance, balance, balance) • Oral Presentation • “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” • Things to remember

  3. Oral Session Guidelines • Sessions are 50 minutes in length (per the M/W/F class schedule) • Sessions will begin and end on time • Presenters per session • 15 minutes per presenter (strictly enforced) • 2 minutes for convener/faculty to introduce • 10 minutes for presentation • 3 minutes for questions

  4. Purpose and Audience • CURO’s Purpose: Multidisciplinary undergraduate research conference and premiere academic event of the year, showcasing accomplishments of undergraduate researchers. • YOUR Purpose: To share your research in this forum. • To achieve yourpurpose, you must convey your research to a general audience; however, you must also be aware of your co-presenters and the audience who choose to attend a session with these presenters.

  5. Content and Organization Introduction and Background Hypothesis Methodology - Picture, Diagram, Schematic Results - Graph, Picture, Chart, Table Conclusions and Q&A

  6. Introduction and Background • Introduction • State of the field OR context of topic • Terminology and vocabulary • Questions addressed by research • Background • All relevant information needed to understand questions • Purpose and significance of research

  7. Hypothesis or Thesis • Central point around which your presentation pivots • Clear and concise statement • “If…then” statements • Question • Topic/comment

  8. Methodology • Present as few experiments at a time as possible • Clear description of the methods used to obtain results

  9. Methodology • All pertinent information to experimental procedure is given • Purpose • Controls • Independent/dependent variables • Unimportant conditions or variables are excluded • Diagrams/flow charts/graphics are better than text

  10. Bad Method Slide Example Protocol: • Pathogen and normal flora cultures were grown in appropriate media. • 9.0-9.9 ml of cell suspension was mixed with 0.1-1ml amounts of stock psoralen to give final psoralen concentrations of 1,3,5,7, and 10 mg/L. • Mixtures were allowed to sit for 10min and placed under UVA lamp. • Number of surviving cells were determined at 20s intervals by removing 0.1ml with a Gibson pipette and preparing serial dilutions in MRD. • After last extraction, survival of the cells was calculated using n/no x 100. • n=number recovered at time t • no=initial number

  11. Good Method Slide Example The Efficacy of Psoralen Assay

  12. Results • Concise description of results/discussion • Graphical/visual representation with appropriate labels • End with the summary of results

  13. Conclusions and Q&A • Answer questions asked in introduction • Relate results/conclusions with hypothesis • Identify new questions created by your research

  14. The previous 9 slides in three sentences • Tell them what you’re going to tell them • Tell them • Tell them what you told them

  15. Visual Representation • No more than 6 lines of text per slide • Bullet points, not sentences • Font no smaller than 20 • Use as many figures, diagrams, and illustrations as possible • Keep slides simple and clear • REMEMBER TO CITE when appropriate

  16. Effective Presentation • Project voice • Pace • Enunciate • Body control, placement, and language • Eye contact • Laser pointer usage

  17. “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Practice, Practice, Practice! • Before the day of the Symposium: • Practice with live audience • Get feedback • Answer questions: your friends’ questions will likely be the same as your audience • The night before the Symposium: • Check equipment • Backups of presentation • Check slides for errors and formatting

  18. Practice, practice, practice (Cont.) • The day of the Symposium: • Make certain you have: • Your equipment • Back-up presentation • Arrive at the Classic Center at least 15 minutes before the beginning of your session. • Check-in at the main table and pick up your packet. • Find your assigned room. • When the room is open, enter and find the room convener and introduce your self. Make certain the convener know how to pronounce your name and, if they are introducing you, your abstract title, mentor’s name and department.

  19. Things to remember… • You are the expert on your research. But your expertise will always be limited to where you are in your development as a researcher. • Become comfortable with “I don’t know.” Being an expert on your research efforts doesn’t guarantee omniscience about the whole field. • It’s okay to postulate or speculate as long as you make it clear you are doing so.

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