example oral presentation script

If you don't hit 4 minutes of speaking by talking about your table, you can talk about quotes related to the table (from nvivo), and/or you can talk about your positive experience with the project.   If you stop before 4 minutes, and you have done well up to that point, I may ask you a question about your table (or let someone in the audience ask you a question about your table), to help you reach the 4 minute mark.

When your time is finished I will say "thank you."  Then the audience will clap, and the next speaker will come up to the podium.

You may read your presentation script if you want.  You are not graded on style, but, rather, on the content of your presentation (conveying of information) -- accurately describing the spss output which you chose on the signup sheet. 

I'm posting the email exchange below because I think it provides an excellent example of how to write and revise a draft of your oral presentation.   I read this script in about 2 minutes 30 seconds.  This script might be supplemented with a few sentences using the sociological imagination to guess about why we found what we found, and/or the presenter could be prepared for some "back and forth" discussion between the instructor and/or audience to make it to at least 4 minutes.

    Here's the original submitted script:       

   The P-value is .037 which is under the amount we want of .005.
The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is 1.6 in the Yes row and the upper middle and upper class is -1.3 which I believe are the most important. The lower and working class has a percentage of 21.2% which is 10 times higher than that of the upper middle and upper class with a percent of 9.3.
                The findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.

Here's the revised script:

  The P-value is .037 which is under the amount we want of .05 shows that there is a statistically significant relationship between my two variables which are between the lower and working class and upper middle and upper class. The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is 1.6 in the Yes row, this means that the lower and working class is more likely than we expected to say yes to the question "In the last 12 months, were you ever hungry but didn't eat because there wasn't enough money for food?" The upper middle and upper class is -1.3. This means that the upper middle and upper class is less likely than we expected to say yes to the same question. These are what I believe to be the most important rows. For the Yes answer the lower and working class has a percentage of 21.2% which is 10 times higher than that of the upper middle and upper class with a percent of 9.3 and the middle class has a 14.1% with the same standardized residual as upper middle and upper class of -1.3.
            The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is -.6 in the No row, this means that the lower and working class is less likely than we expected to say No to the question. The Upper middle class and upper class has a .7 standardized residual so this means that the upper middle class and upper class are more likely than we expected to say No to the question of being hungry. For the No answer the upper middle and upper class has a 90.7% compared to the lower and working class that has a 77.5%, and then the middle class once again is in between with an 82.7%.
                The findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.

See the email exchange below where she sent me the draft of the script and I made suggestions and she replied with the revised script.

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From: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
To: "Victoria Fielder" <vfielder@mail.fresnostate.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:55:22 PM
Subject: Re: right now

see below for comments in bold.  This should help you get at least 4 minutes. You might want to find a quote or two as well.

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From: "Victoria Fielder" <vfielder@mail.fresnostate.edu>
To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:43:51 PM
Subject: right now

The  question is . . .

                The P-value is .037 which is under the amount we want of .005.

This means there is a statistically significant relationship between my two variables . . .(list variables)

The standardized residuals for the lower and working class is 1.6 in the Yes row.  

This means that lower and working class is more likely than we expected to say yes . . . (list question)

and the upper middle and upper class is -1.3. 

 

This means that lower and working class is more likely than we expected to say yes . . . (list question)

which I believe are the most important.

For the xxx answer, The lower and working class has a percentage of 21.2% which is 10 times higher than that of the upper middle and upper class with a percent of 9.3.

You need to give the percentages across the rows for at least two rows of the table.
                The findings here show that the lower and working class go hungry far more often than the upper middle and upper class.

hunger and class