CS 312, section 003

1. Content [60 points]: Could you understand what they did for their improvement? Did you know what their improvement was supposed to accomplish? Did they present enough data so that you could conclude that their improvement did or did not accomplish its objective? Did their conclusion about their improvement match the data they presented? Did they have any idea why their improvement did or did not work ? Did they have any ideas for what to do next to either improve their improvement or try something else?
2. Visual Presentation [20 points]: Were the slides readable? Was the data well-presented? Were the slides tacky and distracting? Did they look at their feet or the keyboard the whole time?
3. Oral presentation [20 points]: Did they speak clearly? Did they vary their tone and speed?

For 312, you will probably want to use an outline that goes something like this. Variations are fine, you know the scoring criteria so have fun if you want to do something completely different.

1. INtroduction. What problem does your improvement work on? (1 slide)
   
2. What is your improvement supposed to improve about your solution to that problem? How do you know that this is a problem? (1 or 2 slides)
   
3. What is your improvement? (1 or 2 slides) This would be a good place to talk about how you implemented your improvement, but be careful not spend forever talking about coding.
   
4. Say wehter or not you think your improvement accomplished anything and then present some data that supports your conclusions. (2-3 slides)
   
5. Close by saying why your improvement did or did not work and what you would change next if you had enough time. (1 slide).
   

I've posted a guide to writing presentations. It is written mostly for graduate students presenting research, but the ideas apply to presenting improvements. You'll find that its pretty opinionated. I can be pretty dogmatic when I want to be, and I did. So try not to get caught up in that.