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The document provides guidance on creating an effective proposal presentation, including focusing on convincing the audience of the importance and feasibility of the research, dividing up the presentation topics between partners, and rehearsing as a team to ensure a coherent, well-delivered presentation within the allotted time. Key questions to consider include the organization of the content, design of visual slides, and each speaker's delivery style.

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Mod4 Presentations PDF

The document provides guidance on creating an effective proposal presentation, including focusing on convincing the audience of the importance and feasibility of the research, dividing up the presentation topics between partners, and rehearsing as a team to ensure a coherent, well-delivered presentation within the allotted time. Key questions to consider include the organization of the content, design of visual slides, and each speaker's delivery style.

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Creating your Proposal Presentation

Atissa Banuazizi
Lecturer, Writing Across the Curriculum

[email protected]
9 May 2012
Overview
• Goals and components of the Module 3
Presentation
• Dividing up the presentation
• Delivering the presentation with your partner
• Questions to ask yourselves: organization, slide
design, delivery
A proposal presentation has a
distinct audience and purpose
Persuading evaluators to support your research
project
• Assume that your audience comprises
• experts in your topic
• intelligent generalists with exposure to your field
• How can you make your proposal compelling?
• Convince audience that project is worth doing
• Convince audience that you are capable of
carrying it out
Help your audience understand the
motivation for your idea
• Broadly: What is the problem? What is its (social,
scientific) significance?
• Specifically: How have you zeroed in on a well-
defined research question?
• What about your project is novel, relative to prior
work?
Help your audience appreciate
the merits of your approach
• Provide a clear overview of the scope of your plan
• be realistic, not overambitious
• Propose pertinent experiments with good controls
• Explain your methods succinctly
• Demonstrate the kind of data you might see
• show how they will illuminate your central
question
• Offer alternative solutions/backup plan
12 minutes to cover...
• brief project overview
• sufficient background information for everyone to
understand your proposal
• statement of the research problem and goals
• project details and methods
• predicted outcomes if everything goes according to
plan and if nothing does
• needed resources to complete the work
• societal impact if all goes well
Dividing up the presentation:
general principles
• Each partner should speak roughly
the same amount of time
• Audience assumption: Change in
speakers corresponds to change in
topic
• Keep shifts to a minimum
• changing speakers can distract
audience/slow the talk down
• Many options for dividing the talk!
• depends on the shape of your
presentation...
Dividing up the presentation:
Option 1 (Down the Middle)
Speaker 1: Speaker 2:
• brief project overview • predicted outcomes if
everything goes according
• sufficient background
to plan and if nothing
information for everyone
does
to understand your
proposal • needed resources to
complete the work
• statement of the research
problem and goals • societal impact if all goes
well
• project details and
methods
division assumes that Part I
is roughly as long as Part II
Dividing up the presentation:
Option 2 (The Sandwich)
Speaker 1: Speaker 2:

• brief project overview


• sufficient background • project details and
information for everyone method
to understand your
• predicted outcomes if
proposal
everything goes
• statement of the research according to plan and if
problem and goals nothing does

context=bread • needed resources to


complete the work

• societal impact if all goes experiment nuts & bolts =


well filling
Dividing up the presentation:
Option 3 (Back and Forth)
Speaker 1: Speaker 2:
• brief project overview
• sufficient background
each partner speaks long information for everyone to
enough to establish flow understand proposal

• project details and • statement of the research


methods problem and goals

• predicted outcomes if
everything goes according • needed resources to
to plan and if nothing complete the work
does • societal impact if all goes
well
More options (for specific kinds
of projects)
• Two discrete research questions OR
• Two discrete methods
• each partner follows one strand
• introductory and concluding material each
presented by a single partner

• Other possibilities, depending on the particulars of


your material
Revision is an essential part of
the collaborative process
• Be prepared: collaborative presentations require
more revision than individual ones
• Invest yourself in the success of the presentation as
a whole
• don’t get too emotionally attached to your own
contributions
• Rehearse before AND after you revise
Help focus the audience’s
attention on the right speaker
• During overview, identify who will speak on what
topic
• Review/Preview as you proceed through the talk
• Articulate transitions explicitly -- “hand off”
• Only one partner “onstage” at a time
• If you’re not speaking, don’t hover nearby
• Do not interrupt each other
Rehearse as a team
• Familiarize yourself with partner’s material
• Note timing of each section and of talk as a whole
• Aim for similar speaking styles
• don’t imitate each other, but
match formality/engagement
levels
• Practice moving into speaking
position at transition points
• Will you advance each other’s
slides?
• Practice Q&A http://smu.edu/bobhope/images/
hope-crosby.jpg
Questions to ask yourselves
about organization
• Does our talk fit together as a coherent whole?
• Are all sections of the talk adequately developed?
• Do we have a focused, well-defined hypothesis?
• Is it clear what is going to be done and how?
• Have we realistically articulated the scope of the
work?
• Have we omitted extraneous material?
• Will our project fire up an audience’s interest?
• What might make this proposal more convincing to a
funding body?
Questions to ask yourselves
about slide design
• Is everything on the slide readable?
• Are our slides a good balance of text and figures?
• Have we chosen clear, specific titles that express
the main point of each slide?
• Is the design/format of our slides consistent, or were
they obviously designed by different people?
Questions to ask yourselves
about delivery
• Can we get through our whole presentation in 10
minutes?
• Do we know where to position ourselves, and how to
coordinate our shifts smoothly?
• Do our speaking styles work well together?
• Are we making the transitions between topics and
speakers clear to the audience?
For more information
• Useful tips on creating funding proposals at http://
www.wwu.edu/depts/rsp/insideview.pdf
• “Guide for Proposal Writing,” National Science
Foundation, 18 Feb. 2004, http://www.nsf.gov/
pubs/2004/nsf04016/nsf04016.pdf
• Andrew J. Friedland and Carol Folt, Writing
Successful Science Proposals (Yale, 2000).

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