Guidelines for Presenters
- Presenters are asked to submit a draft of their paper on Friday, March 3 in order to allow discussants time to prepare comments. Please email your paper directly to Miranda ([email protected]), who will then pass it on to the discussant for your panel. If you require an extension, please ask your discussant.
- Note that you are merely required to submit a draft. Thus, if the paper is incomplete, you will not be punished. In the true conference spirit, the goal is for students to get valuable feedback on working copies of their papers.
- Each presenter will have 15 minutes. The chair will warn you when you have 5 minutes and 2 minutes left. Once your 15 minutes are up, you will be asked politely to wrap up. Remember that if you go over your allotted 15 minutes, you are taking away from discussion time that is valuable to you and your fellow presenters.
- You may use audio/visual aids such as power point if you wish, but this is not required. If you choose to do so, however, please arrive early in order to download your presentation onto the computer. There will be PSGSA representatives there to assist you if necessary.
- In order to keep presentations engaging, please do not merely read your paper to the audience. The following excerpt from the CPSA’s guidelines for paper presenters contains some helpful tips: “No paper should ever be read verbatim from the text. Such presentations are often not only dull but also incomplete due to time constraints imposed by the chair; an author reading from text may be cut off by the chair before reaching the most significant aspects of the presentation. Highlights may be given covering such points as purpose of the study, description of the sample, methodology, problems, major findings, conclusions, or recommendations. The amount of time devoted to each highlight may vary depending upon the author's evaluation of the importance of each area related to the paper. Inexperienced extemporaneous speakers are advised to prepare a "reading text" of approximately 5 typed pages”.