Some Advices for Oral Presentations:

• Concepts Definition and Illustrations:
  In general, The predominant feature that appears in most of oral presentations is the "degree of fuzziness" of what is intended to be explained. It would be better if the speaker give examples and illustrations rather than trying to define an abstract concept or object. The pattern recognition course has many abstract features that are often understood by illustrations.
  
  

• Density of the Slides:
  Slides should not contain so much information but just few points (maximum 3 or 4 points !). Each point should be associated with an idea that the student expresses with examples or illustrations. Therefore, the speaker makes also the task very easy to him and to the audience.
  
  

• Reading or Summarizing:
  The speaker should never read what is in the slides since the audience is able to read that contents. He should say something that it is absent in the slides such as meta-information (or annotations). Reading the slides completely is a big mistake! The speaker needs to summarize the idea of the slides and maybe say more than that.
  
  

• Clarity of Presentation:
  A presentation is also clear if the speaker can be heard very well (speaks loudly!), and not too slow in order that the audience will not get asleep. He should make some variation in tone regularly. He should not hide the screen by putting himself or herself as a barrier between the audience and the screen. Besides, if he is using a projector then pinpointing on the slide with an object is better than pinpointing with the object on the projected screen.
  
  

• Too Much Details:
  Finally, the speaker should not provide too much details, he should know what is important and what is not in order to be able to respect the time allocated for this presentation.
  

Some Advices for Written Presentations:

• Plan of the Written Report:
  A written report should contain the plan of what the student is intending to report about the papers read. The student should also introduce the topic read, criticize the paper and conclude his written report.
  
  
• References or Bibliography:
  References are the papers that the student has read and used in his report unlike bibliography is the list of papers that he has read but not necessarily mentioned in the report.
  
  
• Message Conveyed:
  A written report even subdivided into different parts should convey a unified message. Very often users do not like reports that convey many ideas.
  
  

• A Summary and not a Paper Shortening:
  The students should summarize the papers or books read and not shorten and eliminate relevant passages from this documentation.
  
  The grades for the oral/written reports will be given with respect to all these criteria described in the oral and the written presentation.