REM 505: Winter, 2009

Assignment 7: Proposal Presentation Guidelines, Helpful Tips and Grades

  1. Guidelines. You will present your proposal to the REM 505 class during Week 9, Week 10, or Finals Week of Winter Quarter 2006. We will soon ask that you sign up for a presentation slot during one of those weeks.
  2. Format. The format of the presentations will follow that of professional meetings–i.e., you will have 15 minutes to present the results of your research to other members of our class. Approximately 12 of those minutes should be used for your actual presentation and approximately 3 minutes should be dedicated to answering questions. We encourage you to use visual aids to enhance your presentation–e.g., Powerpoint.
  3. Tips: The following are some oral presentation tips we have gleaned over the years from our presentations as well as from student presentations. Please read and consider these points before you present:
    1. Be interested in the presentation material.
    2. Know your presentation material.
    3. Logically organize and link your presentation material.
    4. Rehearse your presentation.
    5. Dress and speak at or above the formality level of the audience.
    6. Relax! Your audience has been in the same situation before.
    7. Stand tall, don’t slouch.
    8. Make eye contact with all of your audience within view as you speak.
    9. Use your natural voice; however, make sure your voice reflects your level of interest in the presentation material.
    10. speak sufficiently clear, loud, slow and economical that you are readily understand. Conversely, don’t speak so slowly that you put the audience to sleep.
    11. Speak, rather than read, to the audience. The combination of knowledge and rehearsal should prevent you from reading the majority of your entire presentation to the audience. In fact, only put an outline (at most) of what you will say on your slides. Nothing is more boring to an audience than reading and hearing the identical text.
    12. Avoid quirky mannerisms that may distract the audience from your presentation.
    13. Use appropriate visual aids to illustrate your main points.
    14. Avoid powerpoint 'fluff' (noises, odd transitions, flashy stuff) unless completely relevant to your content.
    15. Leave time for questions.
  4. Grades–your presentation grade will be based on the following:
    1. Speaking (e.g., clear, concise, at ease, interested voice & organized)–1
    2. Introduction (inc. problem, purpose, significance)–3
    3. Literature Review & Study Area–2
    4. Methods–2
    5. Visual aids (e.g., Powerpoint, overheads, slides, “hang-ups”)–2

This 10 point presentation grade is worth 10% of your overall course grade.

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