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Sweat the Small StuffThe little details are important. Even if you have some really great results to show, you’re going to anger, upset, or at least annoy your audience if you don’t pay attention to details. Some examples: make sure any images have scale bars, and label items of interest. Use the same size, colour, and font text. Try to use the same slide layout. Make all your graphs, diagrams, molecular depictions, etc. with the same program throughout. Present in Bite Sized Slides For each slide be sure to explain everything. Walk people through how you set up the experiment, how you collected the data, analyzed the results, and talk about the controls. What did this experiment tell you, and what questions are still unanswered. This will help build in transitions as you tell your story. Giving the Presentation 6) Practice, Practice, Practice! Even the most beautiful slides with the most logical flow and greatest data can trip you up if you don’t know what you’re going to say. It should go without saying that you can’t just read off of your slides, but seriously: practice, practice, practice! The goal is that when you get up there on the big day, everything comes out naturally – almost second nature. For me, I need to write a script – I don’t memorize it word for word, but the act of writing what I want to say helps. 7) Don’t wait until the last minute The goal of practice talks is to get feedback from friends, lab mates, classmates in general, and hopefully your advisor. You need to give yourself time to integrate their changes into your presentation – both the slides and the talk. This gives you enough time to change slides, change what you might say, and change the written document (if applicable). Try out the room and equipment Not all practice talks are created equal. Sure, you can run through the slides on your laptop in your advisor’s office but you really need to get up in front a group of people – preferably in the same room you’ll be giving your presentation. Be comfortable with your knowledge In many cases when you present your research you will be the most knowledgeable person in the room about your topic. Be comfortable with that, and confident that you know what you’re talking about. Be humble You know your research, your techniques, your experiments, and your data. But you might get questions a little removed (or a lot removed) from your research. You might even get questions you don’t know the answer to, or aren’t sure about. The best advice I can give someone going into a defence – even last minute – is don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know.” Guessing, or even worse, making something up, is so much worse that admitting you don’t know the answer to a question. I’ve seen professors who will grill a student and not stop until they say “I don’t know” or they catch them answering wrong (guessing/making something up). You’ll never know everything about everything so don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know”. Exercise 8. Study the sample presentation of a diploma thesis. Use it to work on your own presentation. Dear Head of the Examination Board! Dear members of the Examination board! Ladies and gentlemen! Before I start speaking on my research I’d like to express my thanks to the teaching staff of the Department for supplying me with knowledge which made it possible to perform the research suggested. My special thanks to my scientific supervisor … for much attention to me and my research. This research is aimed… .The topicality of the given research can be proven by the following factors: … Regardless of the number of research papers in the field of …, there are no formalized and generally accepted definitions of the terms … . The goalof the project is ... . That is why our research is aimed at: - analysis of … literature in the given sphere; - concretization of the term definitions … ; - search for any systematic, hierarchic and other ties between the notions under discussion and defining the peculiarities of each of them; - defining general and special features and functions of … ; - attempting to generalize and systematize … . The objectof the research suggested is … . The subject of the research is … To solve these concrete tasks the following methodsof scientific investigation will be applied: - the method of comparative analysis; - the method of typological analysis; - the method of quantitative analysis; - the method of statistic analysis. The scientific significanceis determined by … The practical applicationof the research is based on the possible usage of the obtained data and the main conclusions, results of the work in the research work … In Chapter 1 of the paper, the general theoretical basis of … was studied, which brought the following results: … . Chapter 2 of the research was devoted to practical study of … This study resulted in determining the following peculiarities of … The most important resultsare as follows … .
LESSON 8: THE PARTICIPLE There are two participles in English: Present Participle(or Participle I) and Past Participle(or Participle II). Present Participle is formed by adding the ending –ing to theinfinitive without the particle to. Past Participle is formed by adding the ending –ed for regularverbs and we use the III form for irregular verbs, e.g.:
Participle Forms
Present Participle Indefinitemay express an action: a) simultaneous with that expressed by the finite verb, e.g.: Reading English books I write out new books; b) referring to the present irrespective of the time of the action expressed by the finite verb, e.g.: The students workingin our village came from Kyiv. c) having no reference to any particular time, e.g.: The bisector is a straight lie dividingan angle into two equal parts. d) preceding that expressed by the finite verb if these actions closely follow each other, e.g.: Entering his room, he went quickly to the other door. Perfect Participleis used to express an action preceding that expressed by the finite verb, e.g.: Having given her word, she ought to keep it. Present Participle Activeis used when the noun or pronoun it refers to denotes the subject of the action expressed by the participle, e.g.: Having opened my window, Iwent downstairs. Present Participle Passiveis used when the noun or pronoun it refers to denotes the object of the action expressed by the participle, e.g.: Being invited to an evening-party she couldn’t go to the theatre. Past Participlehas only one form which is passive in meaning, e.g.: We looked at the destroyedbridge. A central angle is an angle formedby two radii. Date: 2016-01-05; view: 745
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