Oral Presentations/Final Portfolio

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Learning Tasks for Monday, May 5 - Wednesday, May 7

Essential Question: Why are public speaking skills crucial to success?

Objectives: I can...

-research an author that I have read this semester.

-plan and create an organized presentation.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

1. Writing into the Day

2.  Planning Oral Presentations

Your final project in your ENG 113 course is an oral presentation.

This presentation is worth 10% of your final grade.

Your task: To very briefly (5-7 minutes) present some aspect of the research you have done this semester. 

Instead of simply reading your paper, try to present an aspect of your research to the class. Did you encounter some interesting ideas that didn’t quite fit into your paper? A story about your author you’d like to share? Was your author a member of any larger artistic movement? 

Some helpful presentation guidelines:

1. Make eye contact with your audience (i.e. the camera...).
2. Speak up - Make certain your voice carries and is audible
3. Speak slowly and clearly
4. Avoid repetitive mannerisms and phrases. We all say things like "Uhhh," "Umm," or "You know?" from time to time, so just be mindful.
5. Relax and smile -- Enjoy the time you have to share information about a topic with which you are very familiar (or just pretend you're Miss America).
6. Practice before you present - Go through your presentation several times to become familiar and comfortable with the content.  We will practice in class before filming your submission.
7. Intro/Conclusion - Develop a clear introduction and conclusion to your presentation.
8. Visual aids - Practice with visual aids so that they will be a positive addition to your presentation, not a distraction.  I highly recommend Prezi or Haiku Deck!
9. Stay on schedule. You must stay within the 5-7 minute time limit.
10. Finally - Enjoy your presentation and have fun with it! Don't worry about being nervous; it's normal. Stop, take a breath, and begin a sentence or phrase again if you need to. It's okay! :)

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Learning Tasks for Thursday, May 8 - Friday, May 9

Essential Question:  How do purpose and audience affect writing?

Objectives:  I can...
-analyze the purpose and audience of my writing.
-revise my writing based using feedback from peers.

1.  Writing into the Day

• Thursday:

• Friday:

2. Final Portfolio

For your final portfolio, you will significantly revise and showcase one of your papers from this course. It is up to you which paper you would like to significantly revise. In revising your work, you will reconsider your writing for a different purpose, audience, and/or genre.  For this reason, writing portfolios do not necessarily have to be in academic format. They can include genres such as brochures, comics, pamphlets, advertisements, digital/video presentations, and websites (although note that whichever genre you choose must be appropriate for its intended audience and purpose).  We will brainstorm and discuss ideas for revision during class.

Components:

• Your original paper
• Feedback from your instructor
• Peer review of your paper
• Revised paper
• Revised paper in a new format (brochure, comic, website, advertisement, etc…)
• Cover letter

Guidelines:

• The portfolio should be in either a Google Doc folder or, if you choose to submit a hard copy, in a physical folder.
• The portfolio must be clearly labeled and organized. How you do that is your choosing.
• The portfolio must also include a cover letter, which we will complete on Exam Day.

The goal of this project is to get you thinking about audience and purpose.  For your cover letter, you will be asked to justify the changes you made to your paper by identifying the specific needs of its audience and how your new project fulfills its purpose.  Be sure to be mindful of the revisions you make so that you are able to thoroughly explain them in your cover letter.