Oral Presentation

Your research presentations will take place during the week of April 22. 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

  5. Research Design

  6. Implications and Conclusion

Schedule

The schedule for presentations has been posted on Canvas.

Criteria for Success

A successful research presentation will:

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