Project Presentation Requirements

The presentations have two components: written and oral.  The written component is a printout of your presentation slides.  Each group will have approximately 12 minutes to present their project and up to five minutes to answer questions.  Each student should orally present some portion of the overall project.  Members of each group should decide amongst themselves how to split up the presentation, both written and oral, so that each person has roughly the equivalent amount of material to cover.

Your project presentation should include the following sections: introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, and literature cited.  Your introduction should include the hypothesis being tested or the research question and a rationale for doing the experiment/investigation.  Be sure to include relevant background information along with citations.  Your material & methods section should clearly outline your protocol and describe the data analyses performed.  You should present all results, whether significant or not.  Include figures where appropriate.  Your discussion should include possible explanations for your results as well as a comparison of your results to others.

Use the grading criteria as a guide to preparing your presentation.

Each student will separately evaluate their work and those of their fellow group members.

PowerPoint requirements

All text should be at least 28 point in size.  Make sure that your text is easy to read against your selected background.  The best presentations use a single background for all of the slides.  Multiple backgrounds/font colors or types distract from the information you are trying to convey.

All figures must have figure legends (captions), although they may be quite short compared to those in research papers.  Color figures (including graphs) are fine.