1. Helpful Presentation Tips From Jared Silvia and Betsy Gray

2. Simplifying Your Research Assume your audience has only a high school level background in your field Avoid technical jargon

3. Simplifying Your Research, continued… Review basic principles on which your research is based Give lots of background

4. Want an easy test? Give your presentation to a friend or roommate that is not studying in your field…do they understand?

5. Summarizing Your Work! What is the main goal of your research/What question are you trying to answer? What is the significance of your research? Review any basic principles that are relevant to your research

6. Summarizing Your Work, continued…! Describe your results or preliminary data How to these results answer your main question? What are the next steps you will take from here?

7. Summarizing Your Work, continued…! What are your main conclusions? Review the significance of your findings! http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/lectures/wallace1098/CONCLUSIONS.gif

8. Using Power Point Powerful tool Allows Integration of Variety of Information Cannot stand alone - Visual Aid

9. FIRST RULE OF POWER POINT K.I.S.S. - Keep it Simple Stupid –Complicated Slides tune the audience out

10. The Epitome of How a Complicated Slide Can Make even the Greatest Information Nothing More than Gobbly Goop Gobbly Goop is an amorphous entity whose sole motive in existence is to confound the audienceGobbly Goop is an amorphous entity whose sole motive in existence is to confound the audience As the goop grows the reader is overwhelmed into a comatose from which extraction of cognitive thought is impossibleAs the goop grows the reader is overwhelmed into a comatose from which extraction of cognitive thought is impossible As the number of graphics displayed grows, Goop increases at an exponential rateAs the number of graphics displayed grows, Goop increases at an exponential rate

11. Second Rule Do not read your slides word for word The slide should be an outline for the audience Shorten slides that do not allow for elaboration

12. Third Rule Be professional The audience are not Kindergartners Creativity can be good and bad

13. Unprofessional Remember this is work that you are going to be proud of Make sure everyone knows you worked hard

14. Images Make sure that graphs and figures are easy to read Include all important information Should help the audience understand

15. Graphs Try to limit one graph per slide unless there is complementary purpose for multiple graphs Have adequate labels and titles Size is important Do not be afraid to improve graph quality, especially for scanned images

16. Example Ride satisfaction increase initially with time Decreases after a maximum satisfaction rating at 3 minutes

17. Modification of Graphs Clarity is Important

18. Pictures Have a clear correlation to topic Captions if necessary Scale may be important 10 nm Iron Oxide Spheres

19. Some Concluding Tips: Be Simple and Succinct! Practice, Practice, Practice! And don’t forget to relax!