Transcript Poster/Presentation Title: (be creative—make it stand out)

Title: “Something Enticing of
What is to Follow”
Be creative and reflective of core content
Chris Justicio
Dept of Criminal Justice
Your College/University Name
Email: [email protected]
YSU Quest 4/1/2014 or OCCJE 4/25/14 Ashland U
Keep things vivid, clear, and concise on all slides
Message/Theme
• Describe the problem (state the core question
you address throughout the study)
• Give a synopsis of the findings
• “Sell” the study on at least two points
Provide a brief overview of the study’s scope (say
what you’re going to say)
Presentation Outline
• Structure your presentation-how will things go
• List out the different parts of your presentation
• Be clear to the audience what you hope to do
Use action words to describe your agenda (list
out a shell of what you aim to say)
Foundation
• State the purpose as wanting to address the
problem—your unanswered question
• List your hypotheses (short and conceptual)
• Describe how you went about selecting your
problem and state why you chose it
Make clear what it is you’re doing and why you picked
what you did to say
Related Work
• Provide a context for the presentation
• State what others have done on this problem
• Draw links to research where applicable
Describe how the problem fits in with other
efforts in the field have said and done
Methods
• Describe design (survey, experiment,
observation, content analysis…)
• Explain why you chose it
• Describe data (N, unit of analysis, process)
• Describe the key variables in the analysis
Say how you gathered your evidence
Results
• Start with a slide profiling the sample
• Present one slide per hypothesis
• Include results that don’t support your
hypothesis as well or that aren’t statistically
significant either
Be simple and clear--they are key—don’t try to
combine too much together
Summary
• Reinforce what your message is
• Provide a recap of what your results found or
suggest
Say in a digestible manner what the data you
collected mean
Recommendations
• Point out any shortcomings of this study
• Suggest what the next study should do or
address
Say of what use (theoretical, methodological, or
policy) this study has
Invitation for Critical Thinking
• Mention the value of this study
• Say where/how this study might be used
• Ask for comments from the audience (“what
comments do you have?”)
Say what the benefits of this study are and then
entertain ideas from others what their take is