Presentations
For any particular method we are working on, as soon as you have a textual artifact to evaluate, please feel free to volunteer to present during the following session. The nature of these presentations is to support the process of learning how to apply each method we are studying. Think of each presentation as a kind of "coaching session," wherein your job is to show how you have been "on the court" attempting to work through the method with a specific rhetorical artifact, and the class's job is to think along with you: everybody learns.
In order for the class to participate in your efforts, you must display your rhetorical artifact. I recommend using Prezi or PowerPoint: this way you can show the class the actual text to generate discussion. This is the most important thing to display.
Required Content for Presentations:
Do not focus so much on re-presenting the method separately from the text (that's my job). Instead, let your presentation come from the analysis of the text itself.
I expect everyone in class to participate in these discussions. Focus on the presenters’ attempt to apply the method, and be prepared to pose generative questions to the class, or highlight a point in the method that seemed particularly challenging and ask for input. To participate in the discussion well, you will need to be familiar with the readings (having read and notated them), as well as be very attentive to the presenters. Evaluation of presentationsOnce again, because the presentations are informal (I do not expect you to be an expert, only to share your efforts, to generate class discussion, and to learn something valuable), I am evaluating your having attempted these three items (same as above):
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