Individual Research Project Presentation (6%)

Presentation Dates will take place during the last few weeks of the semester, as assigned.

Background Information:

· Early this semester everyone was required to turn in a Research Proposal, subject to my approval.

· On your assigned presentation date you will be expected to speak for 10 minutes on your approved topic.

· The objective is to persuade your audience to your point of view, and inform them about your topic.

· Remember that everyone is researching something different, and the information you offer will undoubtedly be new to most of your peers.

· You are required to e-mail me a works cited page of your sources on the day of your presentation. It must consist of at least three sources that you engaged during your presentation, and the sources should be from peer-reviewed scholarly journals. You must send works cited page prior to the beginning of class.

· If you unable to give your presentation on the scheduled date it is very doubtful that it can be rescheduled, so be prepared.

Guidelines:

· Try not to read from a prepared script. Rather, you should approach your presentation as though you are speaking extemporaneously. Notes are certainly a good way to go. In other words, this assignment is not about standing or sitting at the front of the classroom and reading.

You will be grade on the following criteria:

· Give your audience a brief background on your topic.

· Move on to a sense of the current scholarship. What have you discovered that scholars are debating about?

· Quickly move on to your argument. Ultimately, your presentation is meant to be persuasive. Convince us that your viewpoint/argument is the best way to view the debate/controversy you have discovered in scholarship. This should certainly take up the bulk of your 10 minute presentation.

Very important:

· It is NOT your objective to give a presentation that is merely informative. Your presentation is meant to be persuasive, so that your approach should be similar to your upcoming essay 4, which is an argumentative paper over this same topic. In effect, you must state the thesis from your upcoming Argumentative Research Paper.