Tips for Your Presentation

Because some of you have asked:

1) Should you put citations in your presentation? Please give proper credit for any images and novel statements in your Powerpoint presentation, using a short citation (Forman Orth 2004) or URL if author and year of a website is not clear. Alert students will note that I have stuck to this format during my presentations throughout the semester.

2) What is a "novel statement"? Use your judgement: "The Asian clam is a bivalve native to Asia"...not so novel. "The Asian clam communicates telepathically with its prey"...deserves the (Edward 2001) after it.

3) Does this mean I need to put full references at the end of my presentation? No, there won't be enough time for anyone to write them down anyway. The citations are enough so that someone interested could come up to you later and say "Hey, can you email me the full citation for Edward 2001?"