Presentation

A good presentation:

plays a significant role in helping to develop these attributes and comes in many different formats, oral (everything from the brief elevator talk to a 30 minute seminar presentation), visual (posters), and written (a final report of the work to a draft of a manuscript to be submitted for publication)

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Community CURE Rubric for Presentations

Clear communication is a valuable skill and during this “CURE” you will have a number of opportunities to hone your presentation skills, both written and oral. 1) Typically you will create a written introduction to your project where you will present a survey of relevant literature- this will include essential background to the protein/system being studied, together with the context of your particular project obtained from your own ideas and literature searching. 2) Once you have used a variety of bioinformatics and molecular visualization tools you will have an opportunity to show the basis for your hypothesis that you will explore during the CURE and how you propose to address the various predictions that arise from your hypothesis. This will involve i) an oral presentation where you will receive feedback from peers and faculty allowing you to refine your ideas and approaches, and ii) a written proposal, which may also be anonymously reviewed by a panel of your peers, and you will receive written feedback and given a chance to revise before turning in for grading. Depending upon the overall goals of the course the written work may involve a draft, feedback and revision , and 3) at the end of the CURE you will present a summary of your goals, approaches, results and conclusions which will again involve i) an oral presentation where you will receive feedback from peers and faculty allowing you to refine your ideas and conclusions, and ii) a final written report that will build off of your earlier written work..  

The presentations related to the project (proposal and final report):Whether a written proposal/report or an oral presentation with powerpoint etc, your presentation should be:

Well organized, and provide the requested information- follow the rubric if you are provided with one!

Clear and Easy to follow, and geared towards the appropriate audience

Visually attractive

Reading nothing but page after page of solid type, however well written, is not as much fun as reading text well sprinkled with white space and informative graphics- same for powerpoint slides- a simple attractive graphic with a few well chosen words or phrases will convey your information more effectively.

Use a combination of words and visual images

Appropriately referenced, and not plagarized.

Spell checked and word checked- its really hard to reed something that has correctly spelled wrong words!