Your PowerPoint presentation should be about 11-13 min in length and followed by 2-4 min responding to questions. Don't spend time making an elaborate presentation, rather the intent is for you to gain experience verbalizing your study results and for working with presentation software. The presentation will not be graded, although it is still a requirement for completion of the research project. Don't simply read your paper, rather emphasize the major points of the study and provide highlights of pertinent discussions. Be very clear at the beginning about the research question and hypothesis. Less time should be spent on the methods and more on the results and discussions. Include graphs and/or tables of the results and describe all the information in them.

As there is a time limit, this requires the presentation to be concise to ensure that all primary points of the study are adequately explained. Organize your presentation using the headings below.

• Title – Use a concise title that describes the intent of the study. List all authors' names below the title.
• Purpose of the Study – A single sentence that describes the focus or intentions of the study.
• Research Hypothesis – This is your educated prediction as to what the results will be.
• Methods – Be brief! Don't explain each little detail that you performed, rather describe the general procedures.
• Results – List the primary results; this may be best shown in a table or graph format. Avoid listing individual data, rather display means.
• Discussion – What is the significance of your findings? What do the results mean or what do they demonstrate?
• Conclusion – This is a single sentence that directly responds to the Research Hypothesis

When developing the PowerPoint slides, consider the following suggestions.

• Include only 8-10 slides. Too many slides overwhelm an audience.
• Be sure there is sufficient contrast between the background color and color of the text. Generally, use a dark background with very light-colored text or vice versa.
• Be concise with phrases and sentences on a slide. Many words on a slide shift the audience's focus on trying to read everything on the slide rather than listening to the speaker.
• Label everything on a graph or table.