Two Weeks before Presentation

• Carefully analyze the paper you have to present.
• Identify the paper’s key points.

Ten Days before Presentation

• Submit to instructors via e-mail your answers to the questions in "Preparing a Seminar Talk on a Published Paper."

One Week before Presentation

• Submit via e-mail your PowerPoint slides for instructors’ review.

• Schedule a videotaped practice session with the presentations coach.

Three Days before Presentation

• Revise slides based on feedback from instructors.
• Complete videotaped practice session with the presentations coach and your presentation helper. Receive feedback.
• Make a list of questions you anticipate being asked and schedule a follow-up practice session if it would be helpful.

Presentation Day

• Arrive ten minutes early to class to test the technical support.

• Deliver presentation and receive feedback from instructors and peers.

Post-Presentation

• Reflect on this experience. Did you communicate effectively? Did the audience understand the key points? Could you answer the audience’s questions? What were your strengths and weaknesses (content, delivery, visuals, q & a)?