COMP 520 Two-Week Presentation Planning Guide

Two Weeks before Presentation
  • Carefully analyze the paper you have to present. 
  • Identify the paper's key points.
Ten Days before Presentation
  • Submit to instructors via e-mail your answers to the questions in "Preparing a Seminar Talk on a Published Paper." 
One Week before Presentation
  • Submit via e-mail your PowerPoint slides for instructors to review.
  • Schedule a videotaped practice session with the presentations coach.
Three Days before Presentation
  • Revise slides based on feedback from instructors.
  • Complete videotaped practice session with the presentations coach and your presentation helper. Receive feedback. 
  • Make a list of questions you anticipate being asked and schedule a follow-up practice session if it would be helpful.
Presentation Day
  • Arrive ten minutes early to class to test the technical support.
  • Deliver presentation and receive feedback from instructors and peers.
Post-Presentation 
  • Reflect on this experience. Did you communicate effectively? Did the audience understand the key points? Could you answer the audience's questions? What were your strengths and weaknesses (content, delivery, visuals, q & a)? 

Tracy Volz

Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication

Abercrombie Lab B107

Ext. 6192

tmvolz@rice.edu