A note on Assessed Presentations:
Presentations give you the opportunity to present your ideas on a particular
topic in a focused and engaging fashion to an interested audience.
You should observe the following points:
1. Your presentations should not exceed 15 minutes.
2. They should be communicative and engaging which means that you
should use a combination of notes and presentation slides. It is not
recommended to only read out the slides, you should provide an
additional explanatory commentary.
3. If you give a joint presentation, then you need to work closely with your
presentation partner in order to give a unified presentation. One mark
will be allocated to joint presentations.
4. Your slideshow must represent the main structure and argument of your
presentation: it must contain a title slide with your name and the theme
of your presentation and a concluding slide with a bibliography of
secondary sources.
5. Each slide should be well-structured: you should attempt to summarise
key points and support them with relevant quotations from the text.
6. Quotations should be proof-read to avoid spelling errors, page references
must be given in brackets.
Assessment:
Your presentations will be assessed with reference to three criteria:
1. Presentation skills: have you addressed your audience? Did you interact
with your presentation partner adequately to give a unified presentation?
2. Content: did your presentation deal with the topic adequately? Did you
support your argument with good textual examples?
3. Slideshow: is your slideshow a useful research tool for you and your
fellow students? Are the slides well-structured and clear? Did you provide
good quotations? Are the key points on each slide conceptually and
visually clear? Did you provide a title and concluding slide and a
bibliography?