1. Title Name

2. Research Question This could be a text, graph, illustration, picture, etc. (In speech) Explain the research question, the specific outcome you want to explain, and why it’s important. Try to catch audience’s attention. If you need to provide a background information, you may add another slide.

3. Conventional Wisdom or Existing Studies Make sure you name a few scholars for each group of theories. e.g., Why anti-chinese sentiment? Income disparity (Smith 1988, North 1995; Zheng 2000) Religious conflict with Muslim (Niou 1977; Anderson 1985; Laitin 1999)

4. Argument This could be a text, a causal diagram, or, both. Explain the logic of the argument step by step. How does your argument differ from the conventional wisdom or existing theories?

5. Methodology Cases, time period, actors you examine etc. Types of evidence (data, government’s official document, newspaper coverage?). From the title slide to this methodology slide, you should not spend more than 3 minutes.

6. Findings You may have up to four slides on the results section. Limit the number of characters used in one slide to 200. Rather than describing everything you’ve found, make tables, charts, graphs etc. that capture the central findings.

7. Conclusion and Discussion Summarize what you have argued & found. Do findings confirm your argument? Be honest either way. Discuss unsolved issues, future tasks, places you need help etc. Discuss broader implications of your findings. Future predictions, policy prescription, etc.