1. RESEARCH PRESENTATION IDEA
The overarching goal of this portion of the project is to put into action what you have learned about finding empirical sources AND start your legwork for Final Research Presentation. Once you finish this project you have a better understanding of empirical sources and be well on your way to starting your presentation.

The first step is thinks about what topic you want to present on. You need to select a topic within General Psychology, but not something we have covered extensively. So, go through what we have discussed so far and look ahead to things we will be covering. Once you have an idea, move to step 2.

The second step is to start your literature search. You need to find 2 empirical sourcesto submit along with your idea. For this initial part, please rely on empirical sources and not the websites pre-approved for the project.

The third step is to create an APA-formatted reference list for these 2 sources. Refer to the Read Me Before You Write section of the course, which provides information on APA formatting courtesy of Purdue OWL Writing Lab. You also did the assignment on APA formatting, so you can refer back to that, which discusses how to format a reference list for journal articles.

The fourth step is to write 2-3 sentences for each article on why you feel it will be a good source for your Research Presentation. Write these sentences just below the reference list you type.

What you submit should look something like this:

Research Presentation Idea: Brilliant idea goes here

Reference List

Reference 1 in APA formatting

Reference 2 in APA formatting

Ivy et al. (2010) found . . .

Doe et al. (2008) found . . .
Make sure you:
1) Read the articles you locate so you know they actually are appropriate for your Research Presentation topic.
2) Use APA formatting

2. Research Presentation Progress Check
What You Need To Do Now
The overarching goal of this portion of the project is to put into action what you have learned about finding empirical sources AND start your legwork for Final Research Presentation. Once you finish this project you have a better understanding of empirical sources and be well on your way to starting your presentation.

The first step is to make sure you’ve already started.

The second step is to submit a progress report that outlines a few elements for me to review. See below for the formatting of the progress check.
What you submit should be in a powerpoint (or a .pdf of your slides) and look something like this:
Slide 1: Title slide with your name, title, class, and a picture of yourself.
Slide 2: State your research question & why you chose your specific topic.
Slide 3: Outline of the body of your presentation. This should be an outline of what will go into Slides 3-13+ once your presentation is all together.
Slide 4: References (at least two €“ remember you have to have a minimum of 4 scientific references for the final project)

The third, and final, step is to SUBMIT this document to the Final Research Presentation Progress Check dropbox.

Make sure you:
1)Read the articles you locate so you know they actually are appropriate for your Research Presentation topic.
2)Use APA formatting

3. Final Research Presentation Information

Use the feedback from your proposal (and your progress check if you submitted that) to help you finish your Final Research Presentation. Once you have finsihed your presentation, submit it either as a powerpoint presentation (.ppt) or as a .pdf of the presentation. You will need to submit as a .pdf if your powerpoint presentation is a larger file. The dropbox won’t accept super large files.

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Use the following guidelines for the actual presentation. Please note, presentations that do not adhere to these guidelines will receive a zero. If you do not provide references for your presentation or they are not empirical sources (e.g., you include wikipedia as a source), then you will also receive a zero.

1. LENGTH: Your Power Point presentation must be between 15-22 slides.

2. FONT: Use one of the following fonts: Arial, Bell MT, Book Antique, Calibrie, Georgia, Tahoma, or Times New Roman. Please DO NOT MIX fonts. Using too many fonts can look messy. SIZE: Fonts in the body section of each slide must be between 22-28pt font size only.

3. IMAGES: You must use at least 5 images related to your topic €” one image on a slide. You do NOT need an image on every slide. Your content/information is more important than the images, so do not go overboard or spend too much time searching for the perfect image. GRAPHS, etc: Higher grades will be assigned to presentations that incorporate graphs, tables, or diagrams. You can often find graphs online versus creating your own. Just be sure to cite the source on the same slide (remember. . .academic honesty! :).

Note: Be tasteful. Shock value does not win you brownie-points. Presentations which contain graphic adult images will receive a zero.

4. SLIDES: You may choose any slide design/color. Just be sure slides are neat and easy to read.
Slide 1: Title slide with your name, title, class, and a picture of yourself.

Slide 2: State your research question & why you chose your specific topic.

Slides 3 €“ 13+: This is the body of your work and shows key information you discovered about your topic. You may begin by defining key terms and/or discussing the incidence or prevalence of the issue. For example, if you are discussing eating disorders in male athletes, you might begin by defining the eating disorders and stating the most common ones diagnosed. Next, you might aIDress the prevalence of eating disorders in male athletes and common characteristics of male athletes likely to suffer from these disorders. Depending on the reason you wanted to research this, you might then focus on specific factors contributing to this disorder in male athletes, why it is on the rise or decrease (only you will know because you are researching it :), etc or you might focus on treatment for male athletes and how this may differ from treatments used for females or maybe the need to develop treatments that target male athletes due to a lack of treatments currently validated for male athletes.

Important: Although this is a Power Point presentation versus a paper, you must still show where you found the information used to create each slide. Note teh source of your information on each slide. If everything on the slide came from one source, list that source on the bottom of the slide €” i.e., (Source: Johnson, 2007). If the slide includes information from multiple sources, list all the sources. The format here is less important. Just be sure to include your sources so I can cross-check information.

Closing 2-3 slides: Conclusion. How can this information be used/applied in the real world. These are important slides. You may also discuss what you found most surprising. Lastly, if anything in your research helped you understand something that has happened in your own life or to better anticipate something in the future, state that here.

Very last slide: References. List all sources used in your research on one slide. You must use at least 4 empirical sources. You may also use data from the following websites (and ONLY these websites): National Institute of Health, National Sleep Foundation, U.S. Census Data, and Department of Health and Human Services. These websites can only account for 2 of the at least 4 empirical sources. Other websites require approval. You CANNOT USE wikipedia, about.com, blogs, or fluff websites. Also, be careful when running across advocacy sites as they will often skew and exaggerate stats to support their claim/program, which is why you can look at them, but I do not accept them as scholarly sources. The font on this page can be smaller so you can fit everything on one slide. See the following website for format examples: http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa

Part of your grade will depend on the sources you choose, so choose wisely.

5. OTHER: This is NOT a persuasive project or a compare/contrast project. You are not debating abortion, sexuality, etc. here. Before you engage in sound debate, you need accurate information. This presentation shows me that you can locate reputable sources and build a sound understanding of a concept, pattern, or problem versus blindly accepting soundbytes of info posted on shallow websites. Points will be deducted for spelling errors and grammar mistakes.

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