Presenting Your Proposal BIOS 587 Mary Purugganan maryprice'edu

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Presenting Your ProposalBIOS 587Mary
Puruggananmaryp_at_rice.edu
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Goals for session

• Selecting content
• Designing slides
• Delivering your presentation
• Handling questions
• Critiquing samples

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Content

• Consider your audience
• State problem / hypothesis clearly early
• Include significance
• Keep background relevant
• State aims and how experiments will address aims
• What, why, how
• Explain methods when appropriate
• Plan a conclusion

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Purpose of visual aids

• Create a slide show with storyboards, not a
  script
• Use the slide show...
• to select important topics and issues
• to organize content
• to create a hierarchy

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Designing Your Slides

• To select a design, ask yourself
• What professional image do I want to project?
• In what type of room will I give my talk?
• Well-lit room use light background / dark text
  and visuals
• Dimly-lit room use dark background / light text
  and visuals

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Project a clear font

• Serif fonts
• Times New Roman, et al.
• Easy to read in printed documents
• Sans serif fonts
• Arial, Helvetica
• Easy to see projected across the room

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Choose color carefully

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Choose color carefully

• Gradient fill allows you to change color
• Down your slide
• From left to right
• On the diagonal
• From the corner

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Use grammatical parallelism

• Not Parallel
• Lyse cells in buffer
• 5 minutes in centrifuge
• Supernatant is removed
• Parallel
• Lyse cells in buffer
• Centrifuge for 5 minutes
• Remove supernatant

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Simplify draw attention
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Delivery

• Stance
• Body language
• Handling notes
• Gestures
• Eye contact
• Voice quality
• Volume
• Pace

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Handling questions

• LISTEN
• Repeat or rephrase
• Watch body language
• Dont bluff

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Sample Slides and Videoclips