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ITEC810 Class Presentations

1 Overview

This page explains the purpose and nature of the class presentations that you are required to submit for ITEC808, ITEC809, ITEC810 and ITEC811.

For all slide presentations, please ensure that your slides are submitted with a filename that has the following format:

where N is a two-digit number corresponding to the week of the class So, for example, if I was submitting my presentation for week 5, it would have the following filename:

If you prefer to submit a PDF file, the same instructions as above apply, except that the filename extension will be different.

2 Week 7 Class 4

The purpose of this week's presentation is to demonstrate that you have clearly established the goals of your project and worked out a detailed plan for its completion. The presentation gives you the opportunity to show how your thinking has progressed since the initial project proposal, and to demonstrate how you have integrated the feedback and subsequent discussion on project proposals.

Your presentation should consist of the following:

  1. A title slide with your project title, your name and your supervisor's name.
  2. Two slides which together contain the 150 words that make up a refined version of your abstract. The first of these slides should describe the problem and its significance; the second slide should clearly state what you intend to do and what the outcomes of your work will be.
  3. A series of slides that provide task specifications in the form that we have discussed in class: each slide should present a specific named and numbered task, saying briefly what is involved in this task in terms that are not vague, and indicating the concrete deliverable corresponding to the task, and the amount of effort that it is expected to require.
  4. Finally, a slide that shows on a timeline how these tasks fit together to enable you to complete the project on time.
You should have no more than 10 slides in total. If you feel you need more than 10 slides, then this suggests that yout task breakdown is too fine-grained for the purposes of this presentation. An allocation of one major task to each working week is probably reasonable.

3 Week 11 Class 5

The purpose of this week's presentation is to demonstrate that you have thought through how you will structure your final report, and have thought about the information it will contain. The slides you provide here should be based on the Report Outline deliverable.

Your presentation should consist of the following:

  1. A title slide with your project title, your name and your supervisor's name.
  2. A slide that lists the titles of the main sections that will make up your report.
  3. A sequence of slides, one for each main section, that list the titles of the subsections in those sections.
Most people's reports will have between 5 and 8 major sections in total, so you should have no more than 10 slides in total. When you give the presentation, you will be expected to explain what the sections and subsections contain: when you prepare your presentation, work on making your verbal content informative. It's not appropriate just to read the content of the slides: you have to add something of value.

4 Week 13 Class 6

The purpose of this week's presentation is to encourage you to have a clear goal for each of the aim and purpose of each of the main content sections in your final report. For present purposes, the content sections here are all the main sections except your introduction, conclusion and, if you have one, literature review.

You should provide a set of slides that has the following content:

  1. A title slide with your project title, your name and your supervisor's name.
  2. A slide that contains an up-to-date version of the abstract for your report, consisting of between 100 and 150 words.
  3. For each main content section, a slide that contains the title of that section and a summary of between 100 and 150 words that outlines what that section contains.
  4. A final slide that summarises as a collection of 3-5 bullet points what the significant achievements or contributions of your project are.
The third element here is the most important one: the text you provide should be able to serve serve as the first paragraph of text in that section, before you launch into a more detailed roadmap of what the section contains on a subsection by subsection basis. Here's an example:
The goal of this section is to establish a realistic set of targets for the development of automated grammar checking tools, taking on board the limitations of existing computational approaches to grammar checking. We begin by surveying the capabilities of existing commercially-based solutions, before going on to examine more sophisticated functionalities that have so far only been demonstrated in research prototypes. We then analyse the potential for these sophisticated functionalities to be scaled up to a level where they could be implemented in a commercial-grade system. We end by discussing a range of grammatical error phenomena that are still left unaddressed.
Such a paragraph might then be followed by a more detailed description of what each subsection contains.

In class, we'll use these slides to explore how well people are capturing the essence of their report in concise summaries, and also as a source of data to discuss common problems in expressing ideas coherently and grammatically.

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