Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Unit 4.3 - IMRD Presentation Workshop

Objectives:
Students will be able to...
  • Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between a paper from their field and from other disciplines in terms of structure, process, and style.
  • Create suggestions for application based on multiple sources (papers, publication guidelines, interviews with experts and their own experience in the field).
  • Present their findings to their students, using presentation skills learned in ESL 500.


Part 1: Group organization
Leave your regular seat and sit with your group members for the remainder of the lesson.
Groups for IMRD presentation:
  1. Group: Guo, Ember
  2. Group: Jin, Ivy, Irene
  3. Group: Menjia, Cyndy
  4. Group: Yizhou, Preeti, Aline
  5. Group: Jinsheng, Vikram
  6. Group: Tina, Keda, Dongwook,


Part 2: Template overview
Follow along as the instructor discusses the template for the presentation. Please remember that
that the main focus is the content and not the design of the presentation.  You be graded on your groups analyses of your papers and interviews and not on public speaking ability.  For this level of education, it is assumed that the students already have formal, academic speaking ability and practice.
When working on your presentations please consider the following:
  • Please discuss your IMRD and the specific qualities it has in comparison to the other IMRD in your group.
  • presentations should be about 15 mins in length with a short Q & A afterwards.
  • please use the template and insert your information in the designated sections
  • delete notes for the presentation
  • replace questions with answers.


Part 3: Presentation prep.
To ensure that you can complete your presentation preparation in class, please roughly follow this timeline.
  • 10 minutes - Research Process (slide 4)
    • Discuss typical research projects and sources of new research ideas based both on sample papers and interviews. List main points on the slide.
  • 30 minutes - Research Paper Format (slides 5-11)
    • Based on sample papers, identify patterns in each section (Introduction (Literature Review), Method, Results, Discussion and (optional) Conclusion)
  • 10 minutes - Review and Editing Process (slide 12)
    • Discuss what researchers shared regarding the review and editing process in the interviews that your group members watched. List main points on the slide.
  • 10 minutes -  General Suggestions/Advice (slide 13)
    • Discuss suggestions/advice that researchers shared in the interviews. List the ones you find most helpful/important on the slide.
  • 5 minutes - References
    • List all sources that your group has used for the presentation.


*Once finished please upload your presentation to box.
Templates: Template (same major),   Template (different majors)

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