I hope everyone is enjoying spring break so far. I thought I had scheduled this post to go up Monday, but I must have made a mistake! Sorry about that. That said, here is some info and some reminders:
- Remember to watch this TedTalk, paying special attention to how she cites various sources. Then copy her! You can also learn a lot about keeping an audience involved. Of course, her speech is argumentative and yours may not be, but she has a lot of killer rhetorical moves to steal from. This is especially important for those of you who were not in class on Friday.
- I'm working on your unessays and am enjoying reading all the good work you've done! That said, there is so much room for improvement in many of them and I think we could all learn a lot by doing that work, so I want to let you all know that you will have an opportunity to rewrite both of your unessays. We will cancel the last assignment and spend more time on rewrites. More on this in class on Monday, but I wanted to let you know since I am posting their respective grades as I go.
- Forum Group One: Think about whether you want to be graded individually or as a group for your presentation. I'll be asking you on Monday.
- For every forum group, one way to look at this forum is as a literature review in the form of a presentation. You might have already done a literature review in high school, and you will surely do one in one of your classes at GU. A literature review in economics looks very different from one in biology, but each focuses on many of the same skills, one of which is synthesis. Check out this informative eLecture from Harvard on Synthesizing Sources. Think about how you can integrate these skills into your presentation. I expect everyone to have viewed this before your present.