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Research Skills

Research Skills. Week 8: Making a presentation of your experiment. What do I need to do?. Create a PowerPoint presentation of the results of your questionnaire study. The presentation should last only 5 minutes, so don't be too ambitious.

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Research Skills

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  1. Research Skills Week 8: Making a presentation of your experiment

  2. What do I need to do? • Create a PowerPoint presentation of the results of your questionnaire study. • The presentation should last only 5 minutes, so don't be too ambitious. • You will give this presentation sometime during week 9 or 10 to your academic advisor • You will also need to submit a hard copy of your presentation (in handout format) with your lab report in week 10

  3. A slide-by-slide breakdown • Title and your name • Very brief background • Hypotheses • Population tested • Graphic representation of results (tables or figures) • Summary of findings (link to hypotheses)

  4. Advice • Take a handout of your slides in with you for a prompt. • Do not just read the slides out loud • Look at your audience, not at your notes, feet, or escape route • If you’re nervous, look at one person and imagine it’s just them you’re talking to • If you’re not nervous, move your gaze around the audience

  5. More advice • Choose a legible colour scheme • Red and blue do not go together • Have either dark writing and a light background or light writing and a dark background • Write a little: • Does alcohol impair face recognition? • Say a lot: • “The experiment was designed to assess whether alcohol intake influences subsequent memory for faces”

  6. Figures • Decide what you want to show • You don’t have to show all your data • Fit the data you show to your hypotheses • Some general principles: • Be constant in your colour-coding • e.g. If green = male participants and yellow = female participants on your first graph, stick to it for the other graphs • Don’t get too flashy • e.g. 3D figures are much harder to understand

  7. But how do I add a figure? • Graphs: • Copy and paste from Excel • Use graph-builder in PowerPoint • Drawings: • Use ‘Shapes’ tool to make a line drawing

  8. Number of slides • Your presentation should only last 5 minutes! • Title: 1 slide • Introduction: 1 slide • Methods: 1 slide • Results: 3-5 slides • Discussion/Conclusion: 1 slide

  9. Plan of action • Week 8/9: Make a first draft of your presentation • Week 9: Present to friends to help you practice; ask them for feedback; alter your slides if you need to • Week 9/10: Present to academic advisor

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