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EWC661 Student Guidelines For Proposal Presentation (240815)
EWC661 Student Guidelines For Proposal Presentation (240815)
A proposal presentation has a distinct audience and purpose and it persuades evaluators to
support your study
Your proposal should be compelling: convince audience that study is worth doing and that you
are capable of carrying it out
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Scope of the study
Methodology of the study
Rehearse as a team
Familiarize yourself with partners material
Note timing of each section and of talk as a whole
Aim for similar speaking styles
Practice moving into speaking position at transition points
Practice Q&A
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Questions to ask yourselves about slide design
Is everything on the slide readable?
Are our slides a good balance of text and figures?
Have we chosen clear, specific titles that express the main point of each slide?
Is the design/format of our slides consistent?
References:
1. Useful tips on creating funding proposals at ttp://www.wwu.edu/depts/rsp/insideview.pdf
2. Guide for Proposal Writing, National Science Foundation, 18 Feb. 2004,
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/nsf04016.pdf
3. Andrew J. Friedland and Carol Folt, Writing Successful Science Proposals (Yale, 2000).
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