A slide deck in support of a research presentation undertaken by L6 Top Up students for their final major project at Southampton Solent University.

1. CUP639 MAJOR PROJECT
AE1 Presentation Assessment

2. PRESENTING YOUR RESEARCH
Presenting your research and formatting your research
report for the AE1 Presentations .

3. THE PROGRESS PRESENTATION
AS PART OF THE ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENT YOU WILL GIVE A
SHORT (10 MINUTE) PRESENTATION OUTLINING YOUR PROGRESS,
YOUR GOALS AND YOUR CURRENT FINDINGS.
YOU WILL ALSO UPLOAD YOUR PRESENTATION AS A PDF SLIDE DECK
FOR THE ASSESSMENT.

4. PRESENTATION STYLE
Careful attention should be paid to your presentation’s
structure and style – including the quality of your visual
aids.
Remember the 7 tips for Visual Presentations?
If you haven’t seen it you can find it here:
http://www.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/7-tips-to-create-
visual-presentations

5. PRESENTATION STRUCTURE
Your presentation should following the structure below:
1. Introduction: give a general sense of what the audience are going to learn
(what is the key message of the presentation?).
2. Brief rationale for the proposed project output (why are you going to do
THIS project?).
3. Aims/objectives/outcomes: i.e. the overall creative vision and specific
goals (see next slides).
4. Summary of research findings that are directly related to the content of
your project output with appropriate referencing.
5. An evaluation of the theoretical concerns related to your project with
appropriate referencing.
6. An outline plan for completing your project.
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY!

6. WHAT ARE THE
IMPORTANT MESSAGES YOU
WANT TO AUDIENCE TO UNDERSTAND?
INTRODUCTION

7. WHAT PROBLEMS ARE YOU
SETTING OUT TO SOLVE AND
WHAT QUESTIONS WILL YOU ASK
IN ORDER TO SOLVE THEM?

8. BE CLEAR
ABOUT THE
DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN
AIMS AND
OBJECTIVES

9. WHAT WILL BE THE OUTCOME(S) OR
OUTPUT(S) OF YOUR PROJECT?

10. HOW WILL YOU MEASURE THE
SUCCESS OF YOUR PROJECT?

11. WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?

12. WHAT HAVE YOU
DISCOVERED SO FAR AND
WHAT INSIGHTS HAVE YOU
GAINED FROM YOUR
RESEARCH

13. WHAT THEORETICAL CONCERNS HAVE
YOU ALREADY CONSIDERED?

15. CLEARLY REFERENCE
THROUGHOUT…
…AND INCLUDE A BIBLIOGRAPHY

16. YOU WILL BE GRADED ON THE
QUALITY OF YOUR RESEARCH

17. THE RESEARCH REPORT
AS PART OF THE ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENT YOU SHOULD UPLOAD
A DRAFT RESEARCH REPORT ALONG WITH YOUR PRESENTATION
SLIDES.
THIS REPORT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE
THE FINAL VERSION THAT YOU SUBMIT FOR ASSESSMENT IN THE
SPRING.
YOUR RESEARCH WILL CONTINUE RIGHT THROUGH TO YOUR FINAL
ASSESSMENT SO YOU WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE THIS DOCUMENT
OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS.

18. • Research Report
– The written up research that was detailed in your
presentations.
– Summaries of primary research (interviews, observations,
reflections).
– Summaries of your secondary research (including
theoretical, contextual and topic related research).
– Relate the research findings to your creative ideas,
processes and intentions.
– Be critical; compare/contrast, analyse, conclude, produce
new ideas about how you will create your work.

19. HOW DO YOU FORMAT A REPORT?
A report is a very particular genre of writing and requires a
particular kind of approach. generally they are very formal,
are structured around headings, bullet points, tables and
other informational forms.
There shouldn't be any need for reflection or description of
how you did things.
Just the information is enough.

20. WHAT IS THE RESEARCH PROCESS?

21. COVER PAGE

22. CONTENTS PAGE

23. WHAT SHOULD YOU INCLUDE?

24. WHO IS IT FOR?

25. WILL THEY UNDERSTAND IT?

26. IT’S A COMMUNICATION TOOL!

27. FORMATTING THE LAYOUT
• 1.0 HEADINGS
• 1.1 SUB HEADINGS
• 1.2 SUB HEADINGS
• 1.1.1 SECTION HEADINGS
• Bullet Points
• Bullet Points
• Bullet Points
• Bullet Points

28. COULD SOMEONE
ELSE READ MY
REPORT AND USE THE
INFORMATION?

29. EMAIL ME WITH QUESTIONS OR
ARRANGE A TUTORIAL FOR
CLARIFICATION