Monthly Archives: November 2015

Students, I have to cover someone else’s class today, so I cannot make my office hours this morning, Tuesday, 11-noon.  My apologies for the short notice.

Specifications for the final paper are available under the Papers tab.  Be sure to sign up for a conference slot through Google Drive.  If you did not get an invitation to the sign up sheet, contact me via email.

Expand your bibliography to ten sources and turn it in through OAKS by noon Friday, the 6th.

Create a PowerPoint, Keynote, or Prezi presentation that outlines what you’re going to do in your final paper.

You must have at least one slide devoted to each of the following:

1. History of your issue
2. Identification and analysis of your audience (imagine you are trying to persuade whomever makes a decision regarding your issue)
3. Refutation of one stake-holder’s argument.
4. Presentation of one of your own arguments
5. Conclusion: your policy recommendation

You should minimize the amount of text you use on your slides: bullet points will do. But you should practice your presentation, so that you can elaborate on those points coherently and intelligently.

You should also make your presentation attractive; use visual elements to help keep your audience’s attention and to complement the content of your talk.

You have no more than 8 minutes to finish your presentation: I will definitely cut you off after 9 minutes.

For homework Wednesday, due at the end of class:  an annotated bibliography on your research topic that includes at least five sources, including at least one written by an expert with an expert audience in mind.  (We’ll discuss what that means in class.)  Review the Purdue OWL site for more info on annotated bibliographies.  The length of your annotations might vary, but they should average at least 75 words, and each entry must

1. summarize the source
2. evaluate the source
3. assess its value to your project

Use MLA format, and turn it in through OAKS.