Research Presentation

My class last semester opted to do a final presentation rather than take a third exam, and because I found the work they did on their final projects to be both interesting and informative (read: I learned a lot about writing in a variey of fields and felt the whole class would benefit from presentations), it seemed a productive use of class time (more productive than an exam that would simply "test" an individual writer's knowledge rather than spread that knowledge to the classroom community).

So, at the end of the semester instead of taking a final exam for this class, you will prepare a brief (5-7 minute, so 2 1/2-3 page) oral presentation of the information you have uncovered in your research (feel free to thank or blame the folks who took the class last semester for this change).

These are informal yet informative presentations that account for 10% of your final  grade in the class. You may approach them any way you see fit. For example, you could prepare a power point presentation (if that is something someone in your field might do), overheads, videos, activities, or an interesting lecture on the information.

The point of these presentations is to provide your classmates with information about the appropriate grammatical and stylistic conventions of writing in your field. You must, therefore, provide an informative handout for your peers to take with them. I will make  copies of your handout for the class.

You may wish to get together with other writers in the class who are investigating your  field to prepare a group presentation or, at least, to make sure that you are not repeating information.