9.2 Draft Presentation
Begin creating a draft that will evolve into a short, five to six minute presentation of your findings. Please refer to my resources on presenting research for guidance on constructing a good presentation.
At the draft stage, you should already have identified a theme that you will use for your final presentation. The slides you submit should therefore be indicative of how your plan to visually design your final slides.
At the draft stage, presentations should include as a minimum:
- A title slide (presentation title, name, date, etc.),
- an agenda slide with the main topics you want to cover (see the “Final Presentation” instructions for a full list of what should be included),
- a literature slide
- SOC 4015 students should include the two or three key citations identified as part of the memo exercise
- SOC 5050 students should avoid the temptation to summarize each of their sources; instead, synthesize the main points of the literature succinctly
- a data and methods slide that describes the source of your data and the general techniques you used to produce your analyses,
- a draft descriptive statistics table as described in the “Initial Statistics”,
- and draft plots, including your histogram, q-q plot, and bi-variate plot described in the “Exploratory Data Analysis” section above.
Your draft will be graded using the “check” system outlined in the syllabus.