Please read this carefully and ask questions if you need to!
Everyone will give presentations the week of 11/12. See the schedule below for the date you are presenting.
You will be paired with one or two other students. Each of you will have 5 to 7 minutes to present your work. Then we will have 5 to 7 minutes for questions and answers.
Your presentation should provide everyone with a clear summary of your project. You should be well organized and informative. Present your main argument and explain why you engaged it. Don't go into a ton of background or filler; focus on main ideas. Explain why and how your project is interesting and relevant to the work we are doing in class.
You should NOT read a PowerPoint or long parts of an academic essay. You will be TALKING to your classmates and me. We will have a conversation following your talk. If you want to read a talk, that is fine—but make sure to use conversational structures and syntax.
I will provide at least one example presentation this week. Here are notes for a second.
Please review the assignment and ensure you meet the requirements.
If you wish to complete a peer review: bring TWO copies of your draft. I will arrange an exchange with another student. You will then write a comprehensive review and critique to deliver to them and me by email. If it is effective (honest, thorough, detailed, and even), I will count it as a response paper. If it is superb, I will award even more of a bonus to you.
Drafts are due Thursday, November 15 for Quad Cities students, and Friday, November 16 for Macomb students. Please do not email documents for me to print out; turn those in to me in person or my mailbox.
I am tweaking this...