In this section, you can see the script of a poster presentation done in the Student Research Showcase held at the City University of Hong Kong in September, 2019. Are there any structural features specific to poster presentations? Where are they located?
In the script, identify the structural features specific to poster presentations by:
(1) highlighting the word(s)/phrase(s)/sentence(s) pertaining to a particular structural feature with the use of your mouse;
(2) annotating the highlighted part(s) in the box(es) that pop out.
The following guiding questions will help you do the analysis along the way:
A. How do you demonstrate your politeness at the beginning of your presentation?
B. Your audience may not know anything about you. So what are you supposed to do before your presentation gets started?
C. How should you address the audience?
D. How and where should you let your audience know that your research is significant? Why?
E. What should you do at the end of the presentation?
Finally, you may check your answers by clicking the “Answer” button. The same script will pop up with all the features highlighted. You may then view the annotations of the features by moving the mouse cursor to the highlighted parts one by one.
Choosing groupmates in university
Nice to meet you! I am Peter Pang and I am from the Department of Mathematics in the City University of Hong Kong . My topic is “choosing groupmates in university”.
Let me give you a brief introduction. It is common for us to do group projects in university. However, we may meet uncooperative groupmates sometimes and don’t know how to get along with them. Moreover, there is a lack of research on how to cooperate with these groupmates. So our project is to fill the research gap and find out how different types of groupmates may affect our academic performance, and how we should deal with uncooperative groupmates. We mainly focused on 3 aspects, including the influence of uncooperative groupmates on group projects, students’ attitudes towards the uncooperative groupmates and the solutions to the problems caused by them.
In this research, we adopted a mixed method approach. We invited 45 students from our university to do a questionnaire and 9 students to be interviewed respectively.
Let’s talk about the quantitative results. 15 and 14 respondents stated that they would report to teachers and ignore the uncooperative teammates’ view. We also discovered that students liked active teammates most and disliked free-rider most. When it comes to the impact of uncooperative groupmates on the projects, we found that the working atmosphere may turn bad as conflicts occur. Other team members would also be less motivated. This affected the progress of the project.
When it comes to the qualitative results, one of the interviewees stated that free-riders increased their workload. Another interviewee stated that they were stressed as the uncooperative team member always slowed down the progress. Meanwhile, we also found the influences of different types of groupmates on project work. For example, free-riders don’t contribute to the work and this will increase the burden of others. Deadline fighters finish the work at the last minute and negatively affect the quality of the work. Finally, control freaks tend to control the whole process and create more conflicts among the group members. We also found that students mainly report to their tutors about the uncooperative teammates because it is an easier way to solve problems.
To conclude, this study has successfully uncovered how different types of groupmates may affect our academic performance, and how we should deal with uncooperative groupmates. This is the end of my presentation. Thank you.
Choosing groupmates in university
Nice to meet you!
Greeting the audience
I am Peter Pang and I am from the Department of Mathematics in the City University of Hong Kong.
Self-introduction
My topic is “choosing groupmates in university”.
Let me give you a brief introduction. It is common for us to do group projects in university. However, we may meet uncooperative groupmates sometimes and don’t know how to get along with them. Moreover, there is a lack of research on how to cooperate with these groupmates.
So our project is to fill the research gap and find out how different types of groupmates may affect our academic performance, and how we should deal with uncooperative groupmates.
Stating the contribution made by the research in the introduction
We mainly focused on 3 aspects, including the influence of uncooperative groupmates on group projects, students’ attitudes towards the uncooperative groupmates and the solutions to the problems caused by them.
In this research, we adopted a mixed method approach. We invited 45 students from our university to do a questionnaire and 9 students to be interviewed respectively.
Let’s talk about the quantitative results. 15 and 14 respondents stated that they would report to teachers and ignore the uncooperative teammates’ view. We also discovered that students liked active teammates most and disliked free-rider most. When it comes to the impact of uncooperative groupmates on the projects, we found that the working atmosphere may turn bad as conflicts occur. Other team members would also be less motivated. This affected the progress of the project.
When it comes to the qualitative results, one of the interviewees stated that free-riders increased their workload. Another interviewee stated that they were stressed as the uncooperative team member always slowed down the progress. Meanwhile, we also found the influences of different types of groupmates on project work. For example, free-riders don’t contribute to the work and this will increase the burden of others. Deadline fighters finish the work at the last minute and negatively affect the quality of the work. Finally, control freaks tend to control the whole process and create more conflicts among the group members. We also found that students mainly report to their tutors about the uncooperative teammates because it is an easier way to solve problems.
To conclude, this study has successfully uncovered how different types of groupmates may affect our academic performance, and how we should deal with uncooperative groupmates.
Restating the contribution made by the research in the conclusion
