Length:
Group of 2: 17 minutes presentation, 3 minutes questions.
Group of 1: 12 minutes presentation, 3 minutes questions.
Turn in: With your final presentation, turn in
This is a group project.
Other parts of the final project:
This part of your final project is an oral presentation of your plan and results (if any). You will do it in two parts, a draft form and a final form.
Your talk should follow the general structure of your written report. Talks don't have the density of written reports, so you will have to eliminate many details. Your talk should only present the most important parts of your project, leaving the details for the written report. You want to present your questions, your essential results, and enough information about your methods that the listener can assess the reliability of your results. You should also give enough context that the listener knows how these results fit into the larger context of your research area.
You may use slides or not, as you see fit. Two-person groups do not have to adopt the same presentation style for each person. However, you should coordinate with each other to make sure that all points are covered, and that any hints given in the early part of the talk are completed by the end. It is also a good idea to coordinate enough that any transitions are not jarring.
As preparation for your final presentation, you will give a trial presentation in class to another group. Your trial presentation will not be graded, but it will be critiqued by the other group. Your trial presentation should be a rougher version of what you intend to say in the final version. If you don't yet have your data, create a mock graph or table showing how your results might look.
Your draft presentation aids, such as any slides you have, do not have to be as polished as the final versions. For example, you could have hand-drawn slides or graphs. You want enough of your final structure to get useful feedback from the other group, but not spend too much time polishing and refining items that will likely have to be changed based upon the critique you receive.
You are welcome to ask for specific kinds of advice from your critics. You can even give them meta-directions, such as pausing and saying, "Now we're concerned here whether this next section clearly follows from the one that came before", then go on to present the potentially problematic section. Your critics can pay particular attention to the issue you raised. However, save detailed discussion for after your trial presentation has been completed.
We will have multiple trial presentations occurring in paralell. Thus, no one will be able to use a data projector. Given the small audiences, however, it should suffice to flip open your laptop and display any slides you have there.
If you are using slides, please put numbers in their footings. This will prove of great use when you discuss the presentation with your critics, as you will be able to refer to slides by number. Also, print out copies of any computer-generated slides you have and give them to your critics when you present. Encourage them to write comments directly on the slides as your talk proceeds.
Note that many of the comments you get from your critics will also be useful as you write your written report.