HN450: Honors Program Research Seminar—Oral Presentation Guidelines

Drop a link to your prerecorded final presentation to this drop box. Remember, make sure your link has sharing permissions on!! If the drop box will accept it, you can drop the MP4 file to this dropbox.
Here are my recommendations on recording your presentation:
Recommendations for Pre-Recorded Presentations.docx
Here are my guidelines on preparing your oral presentation:
HN450: Honors Program Research Seminar—Oral Presentation Guidelines
Your oral presentation should be 10 minutes in length—no shorter or longer. When preparing your speech, be sure to include the following:
·        Introduce yourself and come up with an attention-getting introduction. Feel free to involve the audience into your presentation at the beginning (or at any point).
·        Provide a brief outline of what your presentation will cover (agenda or outline slide)
·        Give the presentation itself with all the details, which include:
o  Statement of the Problem your research is exploring
o  Overview of most important key points of Literature Review
o  Discussion of your methodology—give good details because you need to justify why this study would be done
·        Conclude thoughtfully. Here you should end strongly, being an advocate for your proposed study
·        Ask the audience if there are questions
Tips for the presentation:
–         You should include the following from Chapter 1: Problem Statement and Purpose Statement
–         Include only the most important points from Chapter 2 – it will be tempting to include lots from your secondary research, but limit yourself to no more than 2-3 minutes here
–         From Chapter 3, you should emphasize ALL the parts—this is what you are “selling” to the audience; be sure to focus on methods because the audience will determine if you proposal is “approved” or not
You must have a PowerPoint presentation for this speech; you may also create a Prezi (www.prezi.com). There is no particular number of slides you must have, but you should create a PowerPoint that observes the following rules and guidelines:
·        Use high quality photos
·        Don’t make the slides too “busy” with elaborate shapes, designs, and pictures
·        Don’t try to dazzle the audience with lots of different colors
·        Keep the words on your slide brief and to a minimum.
o  Don’t have more than five or six lines of type
o  Don’t have more than six or seven words in each line
o  Don’t use more than four or five bullet points
o  Don’t write all words in capital letters
o  Don’t use too many different fonts
Be sure to have the following slides in your presentation:
·        Title slide: Include presentation name, your name, class name, instructor name
·        Outline slide: Give a brief outline of what your presentation will cover in bullet points
·        Body slides: These slides should have headings that describe what your current point is with bullet points and/or photographs to orient the reader
·        Conclusion slide: Sum up your presentation
·        Sources slide: Cite the sources of your information for your presentation
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You should be prepared to give this presentation beforehand. You should also rehearse. Be sure to bring your notes with you the day of the presentation.
Your purpose is to inform your audience about your personal project for this semester.
Your audience for this speech is your instructor and classmates. Pretend that your audience doesn’t know anything (even if you think they might). This will help you be as descriptive as possible. 
During your presentation, you will be put in Presenter mode, so you can navigate your own slides. You should also be sure that you have a working microphone and camera–you will be asked to be on camera for your presentation. 
Here is a template you can use to prepare your slides:
Final Presentation Slide Template.pptx