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pick some document that interests you (for reasons of attraction
or repulsion, or, i guess, both) and figure out what makes it
tick. then tell us. you'll need to pay attention to the rhetorical
situation of the document-which means, minimally, genre and audience-and
the elements that carry the communicative freight of the message.
do not use an ad as your document (yes, they are documents, but
using them overlaps too much with other rpw courses). |
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you can double up with your journal here:
your presentation can (and probably should) be on one of the
documents discussed in your journal. |
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no more than ten minutes. |
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stand up and talk, gesticulate.
you might want to prepare handouts. you might need an overhead.
you might want to use a computer network. make all arrangements
beforehand.
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oratorical brilliance will help you, and drooling
incoherence will hurt you. but it's the 'content' i will attend
to most closely, not the 'style'. and the features of content
that will determine your grade are (1) the quality of the analysis,
and (2) the relevance of both the document and (especially) your
treatment of it to the concerns of the course. |