Presenting%20Your%20Proposal%20BIOS%20587%20%20Mary%20Purugganan,[e-mail]%20January%2028,%202005

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Presenting Your ProposalBIOS 587Mary
Purugganan, Ph.D.Cain Projectmaryp_at_rice.eduJan
uary 28, 2005
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Goals for session

• Content
• Design
• Delivery
• QA
• Samples

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Your Presentations

• Feb 4 8 minutes (5 min QA)
• Apr 22, 29 20 minutes (10 min QA)

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Content

• Consider your audience
• State problem / hypothesis clearly early
• Include significance
• Keep background relevant
• State aims and how experiments will address aims
• What, why, how
• Explain methods when appropriate
• Plan a conclusion

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Purpose of visual aids

• Create a slide show with storyboards, not a
  script
• Use the slide show...
• to organize content
• to create a hierarchy

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Suggested slide content

• Title as concrete as possible
• Problem / hypothesis
• Significance / background
• Specific Aim (x3)
• State aim
• Provide rationale
• Propose experiments
• Predict results / interpretation
• Conclusion

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Designing Your Slides

• To select a design, ask yourself
• What professional image do I want to project?
• In what type of room will I give my talk?
• Well-lit room use light background / dark text
  and visuals
• Dimly-lit room use dark background / light text
  and visuals

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Project a clear font

• Serif fonts
• Times New Roman, et al.
• Easy to read in printed documents
• Sans serif fonts
• Arial, Helvetica, et al.
• Easy to see projected across the room

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Choose color carefully

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Choose color carefully

• Gradient fill allows you to change color
• Down
• Across
• Diagonally
• From the corner

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Use grammatical parallelism

• Not Parallel
• Lyse cells in buffer
• 5 minutes in centrifuge
• Supernatant is removed
• Parallel
• Lyse cells in buffer
• Centrifuge for 5 minutes
• Remove supernatant

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Simplify draw attention
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Delivery

• Stance
• Body language
• Handling notes
• Gestures
• Eye contact
• Voice quality
• Volume
• Pace

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Handling questions

• LISTEN
• Repeat or rephrase
• Watch body language
• Dont bluff

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Sample Slides and Videoclips