Conference-style Presentation

Important

Submit slides on Canvas before your presentation. Week of April 27.

Your research presentations will take place during the week of April 27. Your presentation should be between 10-12 minutes, and there will be about five minutes for questions from your peers.

Organization of the Presentation

Your presentation must include the following sections:

  1. Motivation: use an example that shows why your question matters or some interesting data that captures the audience’s attention

  2. Research Question: this may come before or after the literature review (whatever you think works best in the flow of the presentation)

  3. Literature Review: tell us what we know and what we don’t know in a couple of slides.

  4. Theory and Expectations

  5. Data and Methods

  6. Results

  7. Implications and Conclusion

Criteria for Success

A successful research presentation will:

  1. Present a clear research question toward the beginning
  2. Provide scholarly context for the research question (i.e., literature review)
  3. Sufficiently explain all relevant concepts and how they connect
  4. Provide a substantive interpretation of the statistical analysis
  5. Include only necessary information in the slides (don’t overcrowd them)
  6. Use appropriate pace and tone