GC Graded Course Components: Research Project Presentation
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| Demosthenes Links to an external site. | Charles Dickens Links to an external site. |
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Demosthenes Practising Oratory
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One of the goals of the Presentation is to give you some practice informally presenting something you are interested in to a small group. Think giving a brief presentation to a UMD student organization (e.g., MPIRG Links to an external site.) or campus interest group (e.g., Donut Connoisseurs of Duluth), or to a community organization that you belong to (e.g.s, The Superior Hiking Trail Association Links to an external site., Duluth Community Garden Program Links to an external site.), or something like a student presentation at a state/regional convention of your major (e.g., The Central Sates Anthropological Society Links to an external site.), or something like that.
Another e.g.: If you are thinking about something like a PowerPoint type of Presentation, consider doing the kind of presentation you would do for an organization you are a member of, for something like a "tabling" event at a fundraiser or at something like a recruitment fair.
The audience should be a group like your classmates.
Another goal of the Project, an hence the Presentation, is to give you practice taking something you have been working on and are interested in and presenting it to two different audiences, one informal (the Presentation) and one formal (the term paper).
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As far as the assignments go, the Presentation and the Term Paper are not repetitions or duplications. They are different ways to present the results of your research to different audiences for different purposes. It is the goal of this pair of assignments combined to give you experience presenting (a) your information to (b) two different audiences for (c) two different purposes. If you are one who thinks the Term Paper and the formal audience should be first, and the Presentation and the informal audience second, that is a legitimate point of view. But since both can not be first, the model used here is the real-life situation one where a student presents a paper (or poster or whatever) to a student session of a regional meeting of their major (the informal audience), gets feedback from their regional peers, and then develops the project into a formal print version submitted to the regional organization (the formal project to a formal audience). If you happen to have a major that doesn't have a regional organiztion or a student section, or have not declared a major, then your idea of having the the Term Paper first and Presentation last makes a lot more sense. If that is the case, pretend you have a major-related student section of a regional organization. Unfortunately, with a class this size, it is not feasible to offer you the option to switch the order of the two. |
During Week 15 review 3-5 or more of your colleagues' Presentations, and be prepared to answer the following question which will be in the Final Exam Question pool:
You do not need to submit any information on your reviews of your classmates' Presentations, just review them before Final Exam week and be prepared to answer the above question if you receive it on your exam from the Final Exam pool of questions. |
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"Presentation Reviews" are your reviews of other's Presentations. |
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