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How to Present Your Rresearch in Three Minutes? - Coggle Diagram
How to Present Your Rresearch in Three Minutes?
Three Minute Thesis Presentation or 3MT
About 3MT
Purpose
Challenges graduate students to report their dissertation research in just 3 minutes.
Audience
To a disciplinarily heterogeneous audience .
Competition rules
Use only one static PPT slide.
Benefits of Learning 3MT
Important educative value
Provides impetus and opportunity for both graduate and undergraduate students
Hone their skills to communicate with non-experts
Develop general presentational competence
Prepare for their future oral defense
Definition of Moves or steps
Moves and/or steps is a discoursal or rhetorical unit that performs a coherent
communicative function
in a written or spoken discourse
A move is "
a functional,not a formal,unit
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Six Obligatory Moves in 3MT
Rationale
Directly state the motivation of the research , which functions to convince the audience of the relevanceor usefulness of the presented research.
Address
gaps , problems , and needs
in the real or research world
Typical linguistic indicators :
unfortunately , little , alack of research
Orientation
Listener Orientation
shows the start of a presentation andengages the audiences attention
Greeting the audience or giving aself-introduction
Content Orientation
Introduces the topic and providesbackground information
Prepare the audience for the next move
Purpose
Aims to state research objectives , focus of the study, and/or specific research questions .
Typical linguistic indicators : the purpose of myresearch , direct questions , and my research focuseson .
Methods
Inform the audience of how the research is/was undertaken
Describe the materials used , such as a model species ,and the technology adopted
Justify why a certain material , method or approach was chosen
Implication
Implication functions to draw conclusions , discusshe implications , significance and contributions of he reported research , or offer recommendations .
The general communicative purpose of this move is to answer the question of "
so what ? Why is the research important ?
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Termination
Serves to end presentations by
thanking the audience
with a simple expression or in a more elaborate way
Pose questions
to the audience to stimulate theirthought or create some kind of suspension beforeending their presentations .
Optional Moves
Framework
different discipline
Soft discipline
Hard discipline
Pure discipline
results