Senior Research

Practice in the mirror so that you can observe your body language. Do not fidget, appear confident. Ask someone to observe your presentation using this outline for additional feedback and comments. Indicate where visual aids will be added.

1. Introduce yourself and your topic. Keep it simple.

2. Background of your topic.
Why did you pick this topic? What work has been done so far?
What is your hypothesis?

3. Explanation of your experiment.
What was your procedure? How did you select participants?
What was your control and variable group?

4. Results from your experiment.
Display a table or graph(s).

5. Analysis
What statistical methods did you use to interpret your data?

6. Conclusions about your experiment.
What did you learn? What can you conclude?
How did your data support your hypothesis, or not?

7. Further study or changes.
What more can be done? What would you have done differently knowing what you now know?

Odds and ends:
Dress nicely. Charter-ware or better. Speak clearly. Don’t mumble.
Make eye contact. Don’t look at your feet.
Stand upright. Refrain from swaying or hand wringing.
It is better to hold an index card (or lay it on a desk near you) than to lose your train of thought and “uhm” your way through.
If you don’t know the answer to a question, say “I don’t know.”

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