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Conducting Research and Making Your Presentation

Learn how to conduct thorough research, pick a research topic, outline your presentation, practice effectively, and confidently deliver your presentation. This guide provides tips, resources, and strategies to help you excel in your research and presentation endeavors.

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Conducting Research and Making Your Presentation

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  1. Conducting Research and Making Your Presentation • Picking a topic • Researching your topic • Scoping your topic • Developing a plan • Outlining your presentation • Practicing your presentation • Making your presentation

  2. Picking a Research Topic • Determining your interests • Determining your strengths • Talk with other, more senior students • Look at journals, bibliographies, course outlines • Look at working papers, memos, technical reports • Try to determine the principal journals, etc. in the field • Browse the Web for ideas

  3. Researching Your Topic • Use the library, especially online databases • Review textbooks • Attend talks, conferences, etc. • Look at conference proceedings, transactions, journals, books/collections, magazines, etc. • Browse the Web to find latest concepts, ideas, etc. • Find out who is working in the area, contact them • Take notes as you perform the above steps

  4. Scoping Your Topic • Make an outline • Estimate how much time each item will take • If more than enough time for all items, expand those items of most interest • If not enough time for all items, reduce or eliminate those items of least interest • Re-estimate time needed for each item • Repeat the above steps as necessary

  5. Developing a Plan • Based upon your estimates and outline, develop a schedule for your activities leading up to the talk • Continue to read and review articles in the area • Talk with other students about your area of interest • Begin to think about the organization of your talk • Develop a detailed outline of your presentation • Decide on the design for the slides

  6. Practicing Your Presentation • Construct a preliminary set of slides • Using them, give your presentation to yourself • Time the presentation • Expand or contract the presentation as necessary • Update the slides as needed • Make the presentation to a friend or fellow student • Get feedback as to improvements that might be made to the slides or to your speaking abilities • Check over your slides for spelling or other problems

  7. Making Your Presentation • Be prepared to deliver talk on the date given • Have a backup plan for accessing your slides • Stand and look at the audience (smiling is good) • Introduce yourself and your topic • Provide an overview or outline of your talk • Speak slowly and carefully, don’t fidget • Don’t read your slides word for word • Don’t go overtime

  8. At the End of Your Presentation • Say “thank you” • If you wish, you may then say “Are there any questions?” • Be prepared to answer a question or two • If you don’t know the answer, simply say so

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