Public Speaking
Skills. These are
summarized on the
Guidelines
for Oral Presentations form
which will be used in grading your presentations next week. We
will view some videos by TJ Walker of Media Training Worldwide.
These are available on the Google Video site. To see them,
just go to Google
Video and type
"Media Training Worldwide" in the Search box. Two that may
be particularly useful to us are learn
the art of public speaking, don't
overdo your powerpoint presentations" and "the
rule of three".
Powerpoint
Logic -
-
Gettysburg
Address
in Powerpoint
Instructions for the cross-tabulation
assignment:
For this assignment, use the General
Social Survey 1972-2006 data file. This very large data set is
described in
an article
from NY Times. To access the
data we can use the Survey Data and Analysis program at the University
of California, Berkeley. Just click on
SDA.
to go to the SDA Frequencies/Crosstabulation program. You can
also use Microcase for this in the computer labs. Click on "New
Stuff" on the desktop and you will find a link to Microcase
professional edition. it includes the 1972-2006 data file.
Your first task is to crosstabulate your research variable with
YEAR. If your variable was not asked in at least three years,
choose a related variable. If your variable has more than three
categories, you should recode it first to combine categories.
Your second task is to produce a multiple bivariate table with one
column
variable and at least five row variables.
(NOTE: you
will get a little.
The percentages should be row percentages. You should write a
paragraph summarizing the results in which you correctly describe some
of the percentages. The finished product should look like this
Sample
Assignment.except that you should not use YEAR as a row variable
since that will be in your first table. You should prepare the
table in a word
processor, save it in doc format, and submit it to SAKAI
If you completed a proposal, you already know what your research
variable is. Your independent variables should be ones that would
be expected to have some relationship to your research variable.
If you use Microcase, you may find that your variables have been
conveniently recoded. If you use the SDA, you may have to recode
them yourself first. To do this, click on "create variables" and
"recoding rules".
It shows how to recode AGE for this purpose. You need to
check each
of your row variables to see if it needs recoding. This
gives you the
flexibility to recode them as YOU wish rather than relying on someone
else's choices.
Then you need to do a cross tabulation for EACH of your row
variables.
You will need five cross-tabulations. You may
wish to
print these out for your convenience or you can work on the
screen.
You take the results for all the variables and type them into one big
table for your assignment.
You should also include a TOTAL row at the bottom of each table.
You can get these numbers from the bottom of your cross-tabulation
table. These may vary
slightly
from table to table, however, because of missing data. Another
way to
get them, for the whole sample, is to type the name of the column
variable in your table in the ROW box on SDA with nothing in the column
box. This will get you the frequencies. In Microcase, you
can use the Univariate command.