How to do a presentation in grad school

[newgrad1234]

I just started my Masters and have to do a class presentation next week about a theory.

What do professors expect for in a presentation?

[GeoDUDE!]

It all depends, but whenever I give a presentation I do the following:

• Give a succinct explanation of the problem problem being addressed
• Describe the background and previous work on the problem
• Go into how I either attacked the problem (methods) or how the paper being presented attacked the problem
• described the significant results
• address the implications for said results
• address the limitations of the results 
• describe future work

If you can do all this in a presentation it will be interesting and engaging. 

[newgrad1234]

Thank you very much!