At the end of your first Term, you are required to give a seminar presentation (20 minutes) based on your written literature survey and project proposal.
Following the presentation you will be required to answer questions related to your project and presentation.

Your presentation will be graded by your project supervisor, the course coordinator, and one independent academic from the School.
A standardised rubric will be applied to assess the following elements:
Technical Content: technical standard, amount and adequacy of material, depth of coverage, interest of the material presented, ability to answer questions.
Quality of Presentation: Structure – organisation of material, balance of the material presented, logic and orderliness of material, focus on important points, clarity of presentation. Verbal Delivery – pace, pronunciation and enunciation, voice modulation, avoidance of extraneous vocal mannerisms. Physical Delivery – control of nervousness, eye contact with audience, effective use of body movement, avoidance of extraneous physical mannerisms.
Visual Impression: Visual Aids – pace of presentation, interest and effectiveness of visual aids, pertinence of visual aids to the presentation, legibility and quality of visual aids. Appearance – posture and deportment of speaker
Overall Impression

Verbal feedback immediately following the seminar presentation is provided by the course coordinator and your project supervisor; formal written feedback as per the above marking criteria is provided within 1 week of the presentation.