{"id":4892,"date":"2010-07-27T13:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/27\/presentation-poll-outline-or-n\/"},"modified":"2010-07-27T13:58:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T13:58:21","slug":"presentation-poll-outline-or-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/27\/presentation-poll-outline-or-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation Poll: Outline or No Outline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a summer student seminar series in the science and engineering departments here, running two days a week at lunchtime with three students each day giving 15 minute presentations on their summer research projects to other students and faculty.<\/p>\n<p>The student talks are split almost 50\/50 overall on whether to provide an outline at the start of the talk or not. About half of the students put up a slide listing the component parts of their talk (&#8220;First, I&#8217;ll give some motivation for the experiment, then I&#8217;ll talk about the apparatus, then&#8230;&#8221;), and about half jump right into the talk, identifying the sections as they go (&#8220;The motivation for this experiment comes from&#8230;&#8221;). I have my own opinion on this question, but I thought I&#8217;d throw this out as an audience poll to see what people think:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3531645.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3531645\/\">An outline slide at the beginning of a 15-minute talk is:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Seminar series are most definitely classical environments, so please choose one and only one option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a summer student seminar series in the science and engineering departments here, running two days a week at lunchtime with three students each day giving 15 minute presentations on their summer research projects to other students and faculty. The student talks are split almost 50\/50 overall on whether to provide an outline at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/27\/presentation-poll-outline-or-n\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Presentation Poll: Outline or No Outline?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,78,13,137,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-conferences","category-education","category-polls","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}