This week, my university is running the 3-Minute Thesis
Competition. This requires participants to provide a 3-minute summary of their
research thesis. The presenters have no guarantee that members of their
audience know anything about their discipline or their topic. It’s tricky – and
many of them can’t do it.
My advice to them is to imagine that they have only a few
minutes to describe their project to a friend of their grandmother’s at the
Christmas Party.
This is a technique that could work as a classroom activity
for large assignments or projects. It will force students to be very clear
about what they are writing about.
For more information about the 3-minute thesis competition, go here: http://cbe.anu.edu.au/news-events/cbe/news/2013/3mt/.
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