-: Seminar Manual:-

Sr. No. Topic Page No.

I Introduction

II Instructions and guidelines for synopsis

III Contents for seminar synopsis

IV Instruction for Final Report

V Contents for Final Report

VI Demo Final Report

VII Instruction about references

VII Tips for Seminar Presenters

IX Demo Presentation

X Summary

I. Introduction

Seminar is, generally, a form of academic instruction, either at a university or offered by a commercial or

professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings,

focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to actively

participate. This is often accomplished through an ongoing Socratic dialogue with a seminar leader or

instructor, or through a more formal presentation of research.

The idea behind the seminar system is to familiarize students more extensively with the methodology of

their chosen subject and also to allow them to interact with examples of the practical problems that

always occur during research work. It is essentially a place where assigned readings are discussed,

questions can be raised and debates can be conducted

The word seminar is derived from the Latin word seminarium, meaning "seed plot".

Presenting your ideas to a seminar is a good way to start the process of communication more widely.

The Oxford dictionary tells us that a seminar is "a small class at a university, etc for discussion and

research; a class meeting for systematic study under the direction of a specified person". And that

describes exactly the purpose of this.

You are the specified person, someone who prepares the topic, arranges a program that will encourage

and enable all who come to participate and to contribute to each other's learning. many people will

recognize this as the definition of a workshop and feel that a seminar is a time where a presenter presents

and allows a short time for questions.

As seminar presenter will take responsibility for

• Identifying the topic

• Planning the event

• Providing a scholarly framework

• Devising the learning stimulus

These activities can be organized into three stages

1. Preparation

2. Implementation

3. Review and Evaluation

II. Instructions and Guidelines for Synopsis

Every seminar synopsis start with front page, a format is given below –

Front Page format:-

A

Seminar Synopsis

On

[Seminar Topic Name](Size 18, Bold, Times New Roman)

Submitted toRashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur

(Size 14, Bold, Times New Roman)

In Partial Fulfillment ofMaster in Computer Application

MCA I Year II Semester

Submitted by Mr. / Ms. [Student(s) Name]

(Size 14, Bold, Times New Roman)

Department of MCA

G. H. Raisoni Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur - 16200_ - 200_

Note:

1. Student should aware about Mr. and Ms or Mrs. (Only includes which is applicable).

2. Front page text should always Times New Roman.

3. Rectangular Bracket [] contains fields filled by students which is applicable.

Students are instructed to strictly follow the guidelines given below -

Guidelines - 1. Seminar title should be in Times New Roman with font size 18

2. The entire synopsis should be in Times New Roman font with line spacing 1.5.

3. All contents should be of size 12 and justified (and nor left aligned).

4. All the main topic headings should be of size 14, bold and left justified.

5. All the sub headings should be of size 12 and bold.

6. Use the default page setup and size of MS-Word and see that the left and right margins are properly

aligned.

7. All pages should be of A-4 sized bond paper.

Instructions-

1. Only one copy (hard copy) has to be made for the submission.

2. Only printed synopsis is accepted.

3. Should provide at least 10(Ten) references for the particular topic.

4. References should follow the format like( author name, “ title of paper or book or link name”, name

of conference or journals or book in which published, year of published).

For example:

[1] Ming-Hsuan Yang, Member, IEEE, David J. Kriegman, Senior Member, IEEE, and Narendra

Ahuja, Fellow IEEE, “Recent Advancements in face detection ”,IEEE Transaction on Pattern

analysis and machine Intelligence, VOL. 24, NO. 1, January 2002.

5. Synopsis should be at most 4 (Four) pages only.

III. Contents for Seminar synopsis:

1 Topic/Title:

2 Name of student:

3 Class

4 Abstract

5 Introduction

6 Brief working

7 Application or Case Study or Survey or Comparison

8 Conclusion

9 Bibliography (reference)

9.1 Books (if any, which is applicable)

9.2 Research papers (if any, which is applicable)

9.3 Internet link (if any, which is applicable)

IV. Instructions for Final Report

All the students are expect to prepare there seminar report in a neat and organized manner. The

following guidelines are to be meticulously following while preparing the report.

Students are instructed to strictly follow guidelines.

Note:

1. Student should be aware about Mr. and Ms or Mrs. (Only write which is applicable).

2. Front page text should be in Times New Roman font.

3. Rectangular Bracket [] contains fields filled by students which is applicable.

4. Report should start with front page (format provide below) followed by Certificate,

Acknowledgement, Index and other contents.

5. Students are instructed to make 3 (Three) copies of spiral binding of seminar report.

i. Front Page format:-

A

Seminar Report

on

[Seminar Topic Name](size 24,Bold, Times New Roman)

Submitted toRashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur

(size 14,Bold, Times New Roman)

In Partial Fulfillment ofMaster in Computer Application

MCA I Year II Semester

Submitted by Mr. / Ms. [Student(s) Name]

(size 14, Bold, Times New Roman)

Guided byMr. / Ms. / Mrs. [Guides Name]

(size 14, Bold, Times New Roman)Lecturer, MCA Dept. GHRIIT

Department of MCA

G. H. Raisoni Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur - 162009- 2010

ii. Certificate format-

iii. Acknowledgment Page-iv. Index Page (ref. V) -

G. H. Raisoni Institute of Information Technology, NagpurMCA Department

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the Seminar Report entitle “[Seminar Topic Name]”has been

submitted by Mr. / Ms. “[Student(s) name]” in partial in fulfillment for the requirement of

the degree of Master in Computer Application MCA I Year for the academic Session

2009– 2010.

This seminar work is carried out under the supervision and guidance of Mr./ Mrs. /

Ms. “[Guide Name]”, Lecturer, MCA department, G. H. Raisoni Institute of Information

Technology, Nagpur and he/ she has been undergone the requisite work as prescribed by

Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur.

[Mr./ Ms./ Mrs. Guide Name] Prof. A.B. SasankarSeminar Guide, H.O.D, MCA Department,Lecturer, MCA Department, GHRIIT, Nagpur. GHRIIT, Nagpur.

PrincipalGHRIIT, Nagpur

Date:Place: Nagpur

Instructions and Guidelines:Instructions for report-

The seminar report should be in IEEE format, format specification along with sample report is provided

in this manual.

Instructions are as follows-

1. Your seminar report must use a page size corresponding to A4 which is 210mm (8.27") wide and

297mm (11.69") long. The margins must be set as follows:

• Top = 19mm (0.75")

• Bottom = 43mm (1.69")

• Left = Right = 14.32mm (0.56")

Your seminar report must be in two column format with a space of 4.22mm (0.17") between columns

2. Seminar title heading: Times New Roman, Size 24

3. Student Name: Times New Roman, Size 11

4. Department Name and College name: Times New Roman, Size 10, Italic

5. E-mail-id: Courier , size 9

6. Title: Abstract and keywords :- Times New Roman, Size 9, bold, Italic

7. Content: Abstract and keywords- Times New Roman, Size 9, Bold

8. Content of data : Times New Roman, Size 10

9. All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-

justified

10. The entire document should be in Times New Roman or Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be used.

Other font types may be used if needed for special purposes. Recommended font sizes are shown in

Table 1.

TABLE IFONT SIZES FOR SEMINAR REPORT

Font Size Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times)Regular Bold Italic

8table caption (in Small Caps),figure caption,reference item

reference item (partial)

9author email address (in Courier),cell in a table

abstract body abstract heading (also in Bold)

10level-1 heading (in Small Caps),paragraph

level-2 heading,level-3 heading,author affiliation

11 Student name24 Title of seminar

11. No more than 3 levels of headings should be used. All headings must be in 10pt font. Every word in

a heading must be capitalized

a. A level-1 heading must be in Small Caps, centered and numbered using uppercase Roman

numerals.

b. A level-2 heading must be in Italic, left-justified and numbered using an uppercase alphabetic

letter followed by a period.

11. Figures and tables must be centered in the column. Large figures and tables may span across both

columns. Any table or figure that takes up more than 1 column width must be positioned either at the

top or at the bottom of the page.

12. Figures captions must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure captions must be in 8 pt Regular

font. Captions of a single line (e.g. Fig. 2) must be centred whereas multi-line captions must be

justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with figure numbers must be placed after their associated figures.

13. Tables must be numbered using uppercase Roman numerals. Table captions must be centred and in 8

pt Regular font with Small Caps. Every word in a table caption must be capitalized.

14. Page numbers, headers and footers must be used. All font in Times new Roman with size 12

• Footer : in center : Page number

• Footer: left justified : GHRIIT,MCA

• Header: right justified with seminar title

15. Should provide at least 20(twenty) references for the particular topic. References should follow

format like (author name, “title of paper or book or link name”, name of conference or journals or

book in which published, Volume, year and date of published. Example refers section VII.

16. References should be of font size 8

Guidelines:

1. Seminar report contains at least 12 pages excluding front page, certificate, acknowledgement and

index.

2. Student follows the sequence- front page, certificate, acknowledgment, index, and remaining

content of final report subsequently.

3. Student strictly follows all instruction (i.e. IEEE format) for seminar report.

4. Submission of report in A4 size paper with printed format.

V. Contents or index of Final Report

Sr. No. Content Page No.

1 Abstract

2 Keywords

3 Introduction

4 History ( if applicable) `

5Working or architecture

5.1 Sub topics5.2 Sub topics

6

Case study or Survey or Comparison( one or all which is applicable) 6.1 Case study 1 6.2 Survey 1 6.3 …

7 Application

8 Future scope

9 Conclusion

10

Bibliography (Reference) 10.1 Books (if any, which is applicable) 10.2 Research papers (if any, which is applicable) 10.3 Internet link (if any, which is applicable)

VI. Demo Final ReportSample IEEE Paper: Seminar Title

Student name Department, GHRIIT

Address1first.student@gmail.com

Abstract— This document gives formatting instructions for authors preparing papers for publication in the Proceedings of an IEEE conference. The authors must follow the instructions given in the document for the papers to be published. You can use this document as both an instruction set and as a template into which you can type your own text.

Keywords— include at least 5 keywords or phrases

I. INTRODUCTION

This document is a template. An electronic copy can be downloaded from the conference website. For questions on paper guidelines, please contact the conference publications committee as indicated on the conference website. Information about final paper submission is available from the conference website.

II. PAGE LAYOUT

An easy way to comply with the conference paper formatting requirements is to use this document as a template and simply type your text into it.

A. Page LayoutYour paper must use a page size corresponding to A4

which is 210mm (8.27") wide and 297mm (11.69") long. The margins must be set as follows:

17. Top = 19mm (0.75")18. Bottom = 43mm (1.69")19. Left = Right = 14.32mm (0.56")

Your paper must be in two column format with a space of 4.22mm (0.17") between columns.

III. PAGE STYLE

All paragraphs must be indented. All paragraphs must be justified, i.e. both left-justified and right-justified.

A. Text Font of Entire DocumentThe entire document should be in Times New Roman or

Times font. Type 3 fonts must not be used. Other font types may be used if needed for special purposes.

Recommended font sizes are shown in Table 1.

TABLE IIFONT SIZES FOR PAPERS

Font Size

Appearance (in Time New Roman or Times)Regular Bold Italic

8 table caption (in Small Caps),figure caption,reference item

reference item (partial)

9 author email address (in Courier),cell in a table

abstract body

abstract heading (also in Bold)

10 level-1 heading (in Small Caps),paragraph

level-2 heading,level-3 heading,author affiliation

11 author name24 title

All title and author details must be in single-column format and must be centred.

Every word in a title must be capitalized except for short minor words such as “a”, “an”, “and”, “as”, “at”, “by”, “for”, “from”, “if”, “in”, “into”, “on”, “or”, “of”, “the”, “to”, “with”.

Author details must not show any professional title (e.g. Managing Director), any academic title (e.g. Dr.) or any membership of any professional organization (e.g. Senior Member IEEE).

To avoid confusion, the family name must be written as the last part of each author name (e.g. John A.K. Smith).

Each affiliation must include, at the very least, the name of the company and the name of the country where the author is based (e.g. Causal Productions Pty Ltd, Australia).

Email address is compulsory for the corresponding author.

B. Section HeadingsNo more than 3 levels of headings should be used. All

headings must be in 10pt font. Every word in a heading must be capitalized except for short minor words as listed in Section III-B.

1) Level-1 Heading: A level-1 heading must be in Small Caps, centred and numbered using uppercase Roman numerals. For example, see heading “III. Page Style” of this document. The two level-1 headings which must not be numbered are “Acknowledgment” and “References”.

2) Level-2 Heading: A level-2 heading must be in Italic, left-justified and numbered using an uppercase alphabetic letter followed by a period. For example, see heading “C. Section Headings” above.

3) Level-3 Heading: A level-3 heading must be indented, in Italic and numbered with an Arabic numeral followed by a right parenthesis. The level-3 heading must end with a colon. The body of the level-3 section immediately follows the level-3 heading in the same paragraph. For example, this paragraph begins with a level-3 heading.

C. Figures and TablesFigures and tables must be centred in the column. Large

figures and tables may span across both columns. Any table or figure that takes up more than 1 column width must be positioned either at the top or at the bottom of the page.

Graphics may be full color. All colors will be retained on the CDROM. Graphics must not use stipple fill patterns because they may not be reproduced properly. Please use only SOLID FILL colors which contrast well both on screen and on a black-and-white hardcopy, as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1 A sample line graph using colors which contrast well both on screen and on a black-and-white hardcopy

Fig. 2 shows an example of a low-resolution image which would not be acceptable, whereas Fig. 3 shows an example of an image with adequate resolution. Check that the resolution is adequate to reveal the important detail in the figure.

Please check all figures in your paper both on screen and on a black-and-white hardcopy. When you check your paper on a black-and-white hardcopy, please ensure that:

20. the colors used in each figure contrast well,21. the image used in each figure is clear,22. all text labels in each figure are legible.

D. Figure CaptionsFigures must be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figure

captions must be in 8 pt Regular font. Captions of a single line (e.g. Fig. 2) must be centered whereas multi-line captions must be justified (e.g. Fig. 1). Captions with figure numbers must be placed after their associated figures, as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 Example of an unacceptable low-resolution image

E. Table CaptionsTables must be numbered using uppercase Roman

numerals. Table captions must be centred and in 8 pt Regular font with Small Caps. Every word in a table caption must be capitalized except for short minor words as listed in Section III-B. Captions with table numbers must be placed before their associated tables, as shown in Table 1.

F. Page Numbers, Headers and FootersPage numbers, headers and footers must be used.

IV. CONCLUSIONS

The version of this template is V2. Most of the formatting instructions in this document have been compiled by Causal Productions from the IEEE LaTeX style files. Causal Productions offers both A4 templates and US Letter templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word. The LaTeX templates depend on the official IEEEtran.cls and IEEEtran.bst files, whereas the Microsoft Word templates are self-contained. Causal Productions has used its best efforts to ensure that the templates have the same appearance.

REFERENCES

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2. J. Breckling, Ed., The Analysis of Directional Time Series: Applications to Wind Speed and Direction, ser. Lecture Notes in Statistics. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 1989, vol. 61.

3. S. Zhang, C. Zhu, J. K. O. Sin, and P. K. T. Mok, “A novel ultrathin elevated channel low-temperature poly-Si TFT,” IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 20, pp. 569–571, Nov. 1999.

4. M. Wegmuller, J. P. von der Weid, P. Oberson, and N. Gisin, “High resolution fiber distributed measurements with coherent OFDR,” in Proc. ECOC’00, 2000, paper 11.3.4, p. 109.

5. R. E. Sorace, V. S. Reinhardt, and S. A. Vaughn, “High-speed digital-to-RF converter,” U.S. Patent 5 668 842, Sept. 16, 1997.

6. (2002) The IEEE website. [Online]. Available: http://www.ieee.org/7. M. Shell. (2002) IEEEtran homepage on CTAN. [Online]. Available:

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8. FLEXChip Signal Processor (MC68175/D), Motorola, 1996.9. “PDCA12-70 data sheet,” Opto Speed SA, Mezzovico, Switzerland.

VII. Instruction about referencesReferences

The heading of the References section must not be numbered. All reference items must be in 8

pt font. Please use Regular and Italic styles to distinguish different fields as shown in the

References section. Number the reference items consecutively in square brackets (e.g. [1]).

When referring to a reference item, please simply use the reference number, as in [2]. Do not

use “Ref. [3]” or “Reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence, e.g. “Reference [3]

shows …”. Multiple references are each numbered with separate brackets (e.g. [2], [3], [4]–[6]).

Examples of reference items of different categories shown in the References section include:

1. Example of a book in [1]

2. Example of a book in a series in [2]

3. Example of a journal article in [3]

4. Example of a conference paper in [4]

5. Example of a patent in [5]

6. Example of a website in [6]

7. Example of a web page in [7]

8. Example of a data book as a manual in [8]

9. Example of a datasheet in [9]

10. Example of a master’s thesis in [10]

11. Example of a technical report in [11]

12. Example of a standard in [12]

VIII. Tips for Seminar Presenters

Presentation skills can make or break a presentation. Your seminar grade is based on the

quality of your presentation, and great presentation skills can make even a project you wish

you did done differently into a first-rate seminar. Below are some tips that will help you

avoid common pitfalls and create a sparkling presentation.

Organization-

♦ Make the "big picture" clear. In the first few minutes of your talk, your audience--

even those that know nothing about your research area--should have a very clear

understanding of the big question your topic addresses, your specific objectives and

hypotheses, how you will accomplish your objectives and the significance. A lengthy

introduction before you get to your seminar topic leaves your audience feeling unsure

of what they will need to remember.

♦ "Package" each experiment. A rigid intro-methods-results-discussion format is

required , but a presentation needs to be more flexible! In a presentation, your

audience can't flip back to a previous page, so you have to organize your presentation

to help them. If you are presenting several experiments, a good format is to give some

general background, then introduce the purpose of each experiment, how the

experiment was done, the results and their meaning. Once you've delivered this

"package" to your audience, go on to the next experiment. At the end, summarize the

results of each experiment again before wrapping up with general conclusions.

♦ Show me the data! Don't have one slide where you show the results and then a text

slide where you talk about them. The audience wants to see what you're talking about,

so put a little text right on the result slide, or leave out the text completely and just

show the results as you talk about them. Spend enough time on the actual graphs,

gels, spectra or other data that the audience can clearly see how your results lead to

your conclusions.

♦ Give enough background. Anyone in your audience who has taken 200-level

courses in your major should be able to understand your entire talk clearly. And

anyone in your audience should be able to understand the significance of your topic.

♦ Be persuasive. As you design your presentation, ask yourself what you want to

convince your audience of. A good scientific presentation should build a case for

whatever conclusion you want your audience to believe.

♦ Less is more. Your audience does not have to hear about every experiment you ever

did, including the one you totally screwed up. Focus your talk on clearly presenting a

limited number of ideas and experiments that really make your point.

♦ Give credit where it's due. All scientific research builds on and connects with the

work of others. Tell how your work fits into the context of what is already known.

Show how others' work leads to or supports your hypotheses, or where your results

might disagree with others'. Demonstrate that you have a good grasp of the scientific

literature in your field. And of course give appropriate credit! Often, students will put

a bibliography slide at the end, but it's unlikely that the audience will get much out of

this, so it might be more useful to put a condensed reference in small type at the

bottom of the slide where the information is given

♦ Know your stuff. To engage your audience, you have to be making eye contact and

talking directly to them. If you're reading directly from your slides or relying heavily

on your notes, your audience will get bored and think you don't know your material

well. Practice your talk until you know it well, so you won't stumble or wonder what

slide is coming next. Then you can look at your audience when you deliver it.

Knowing your material well will also help you get over any nervousness.

♦ But, notes are OK. There's nothing wrong with having some notes to refer to in case

you get stuck, or a list of slides, etc. Just don't use 'em as a crutch. It's a very good

idea to write down any details you think you might forget: a chemical structure that

someone might ask a question about, or a long chemical name that you might blank

on.

Tips for Power point presentation-

Keep it simple. Flashy backgrounds or fancy animations don't work well in a formal

presentation. Use simple clear fonts and plain backgrounds. Black or dark blue on

white, light gray or light tan or else white on dark blue work best. Avoid glaring or

classy colors. Use animation only if needed for emphasis, not for entertainment.

Minimize text. If there are a lot of words on your slide, your audience will spend its

time reading them instead of listening to what you're saying. Plus, you will be

tempted to read them instead of making eye contact. Just a few key words will help

your audience get the message without distracting them.

Use pictures. Wouldn't it be easier to explain that complicated experiment if you had

a diagram? Plus, photos and drawings add life to your presentation. You can take

photos (ask to borrow a digital camera), find appropriate images on the Web (try

Google image search) or just draw your own--remember, PowerPoint is also a

drawing program!

Be sure text is clearly readable even from the back of the room.

Portray results appropriately. No one wants to squint at tiny numbers in a table

when a nice, visual graph would show them better. Consider whether a bar graph is

appropriate for your data, or whether a line graph is called for. Label all graphs and

axes, and add titles to graphs and captions to photos where appropriate. Don't forget

units! Add labels or arrows to a photo or NMR spectrum to help make your point.

Don't accidentally "squash" photos or graphs. When you resize an illustration, be

sure you shrink or stretch both its width and height at the same time. Your audience

will notice if you flatten or stretch it by changing its size only in one dimension.

Proofread carefully. Use the spell checker built into PowerPoint, but also read

through every slide carefully before the presentation. You don't want a typographical

error to appear in 48-point bold text for your audience to focus on!

Make your visuals look professional. If you need to show a chemical structure, use

ISIS Draw. In an Excel graph, change colors, fonts, sizes, backgrounds, etc. to make

your graph as clear as possible and remove unnecessary legends, equations, etc. Learn

how to insert subscripts, superscripts, greek letters, and so on. Use standard scientific

notation: 1.3 x 104 looks a lot better than the computer shorthand 1.3E04. Watch your

significant figures, and don't let your figures get cluttered with numbers like

147.021341112.

Test your presentation in the seminar room at least the day before you give it! Be

sure your images look right, your text shows up, any videos or animations work, your

fonts look right, etc. Be sure to go through the actual slides so you don't get surprised

by animated text you didn't realize was animated, etc.

Keep your file size small. PowerPoint presentations with lots of images get big fast.

To keep your file to a reasonable size (so it loads and saves quickly and can be e-

mailed if necessary), reduce the size of your images. An image that is 1000 pixels

wide at a resolution of 96 dpi will fill a PowerPoint slide (and higher resolutions are

not needed unless you need high-quality print-outs of your slides), but most digital

cameras give you images that are much, much larger than this. Crop your images to

include just what you want to show, and then shrink them to an appropriate

size before moving them into PowerPoint. A great freeware program for working

with images is IrfanView. Another way to reduce file size is to use File | Save As |

Tools | Compress Pictures when you save your presentation. Set the resolution to

"Web/Screen" and check both of the options at the bottom.

Use standard fonts. If you use a font that's on your computer but not the computer

you use for your presentation, it won't display properly. If you must use an unusual

font, then use File | Save As | Tools | Save Options | Embed TrueType Fonts to save

the font information with the presentation.

Know how to run your show. A little playing with PowerPoint will pay off in

making your slide show smooth. Did you know that either the space bar or the left

mouse button will advance to the next slide? Did you know that the backspace key

goes back one slide? Did you know you can hit the "B" key to temporarily black out

the slide (for example, so that you can write on the board or while you're waiting to

be introduced?).

Be sure your movies will play. If you have a movie, video clip or animation inserted

into your PowerPoint, keep it in the same folder as the presentation and move the

whole folder at once. Otherwise, PowerPoint will lose track of where the movie is and

won't play it. Not all computers (even classroom computers) have exactly the same

software installed, and some will play some kinds of movies but not others, so be

especially certain to test your presentation on the seminar room computer if you have

multimedia.

Presentation Tips-

Be natural. It's a seminar, not a campaign speech. The people in the audience are

your colleagues, so talk to them as a fellow scientist explaining what you think are

important results that need to be shared.

Be enthusiastic. Hey, this is great research you spent all summer on! If you sound

bored with it, for sure your audience will be, too. Show them with your voice and

manner how excited you are about the work you did.

Make yourself heard. It could be the greatest presentation on earth, but your

audience will never know that if they can't hear you. If you tend to speak quietly,

practice with a friend sitting in the back row and have him or her stop you every time

you're not loud enough. Breathing from your diaphragm and pitching your voice a

little lower than normal can help.

Know the vocabulary. If you mis-pronounce a key term, your audience

automatically assumes you don't really know your material. Be sure you know how

every term is pronounced! And what they mean--someone may ask you.

Practice your talk. Don't just prepare the slides: prepare yourself. Go through the

whole talk and figure out how you're going to say what you need to say. Where will

you need to spend the most time? Where would an example be helpful? In addition to

practicing on your own, it is helpful to practice in front of friends and your research

mentor.

Dress nicely. A suit and tie or dressy dress isn't necessary, but cutoffs and a torn shirt

don't make much of an impression. Your dress helps let your audicence know you're

in charge.

Avoid jargon. Scientists use lots of lab slang, but in a formal presentation, you need

to be sure you're using terms precisely and that your audience understands them.

Don't say "I Geneclean-ed the DNA," say "I purified this DNA fragment from my gel

using the Geneclean kit." Instead of "we PCR'd up the gene," try "we used PCR to

amplify the lacZ gene from the E. coli chromosome."

IX. Demo Presentation

X. Summary

Seminar is a combination of technical interest with presentation skill to use at international

level. It includes various levels, starts from topic selection and end with actual query session.

This manual meets all necessities of the students which will require in academic seminar. It

will surely benefit the students in thought out seminar.