ENGL 150: Writing and Research
Presentation Prompt
Week 15 (November 27-December 1)
Professor E. Derek Taylor
A thought experiment.
Imagine that during this holiday season, someone presents you with a most surprising gift: a time machine.
You could, of course, use such a device in any number of ways and for a variety of purposes. For this assignment, however, I’m asking you to put your time machine to quite particular use—namely, to give your past self a piece of your present mind about what it’s like to be a freshman at Longwood.
In other words, if you could give your pre-college self advice about what to do, what not to do, what to expect, what not to expect in your first semester of college, what would you say? Why? How might the semester have been different if past-you had heard from future-you? What do you wish you had known ahead of time that you only know now?
Please note: although the imagined rhetorical situation here provided requires you to speak to yourself, don’t forget that a crucial secondary audience for your presentation will be comprised of your classmates and that guy who is giving you a grade. Do your best to be the kind of speaker and to give the kind of presentation that we defined as “good’ during our class discussion.
Requirements:
Presentation Prompt
Week 15 (November 27-December 1)
Professor E. Derek Taylor
A thought experiment.
Imagine that during this holiday season, someone presents you with a most surprising gift: a time machine.
You could, of course, use such a device in any number of ways and for a variety of purposes. For this assignment, however, I’m asking you to put your time machine to quite particular use—namely, to give your past self a piece of your present mind about what it’s like to be a freshman at Longwood.
In other words, if you could give your pre-college self advice about what to do, what not to do, what to expect, what not to expect in your first semester of college, what would you say? Why? How might the semester have been different if past-you had heard from future-you? What do you wish you had known ahead of time that you only know now?
Please note: although the imagined rhetorical situation here provided requires you to speak to yourself, don’t forget that a crucial secondary audience for your presentation will be comprised of your classmates and that guy who is giving you a grade. Do your best to be the kind of speaker and to give the kind of presentation that we defined as “good’ during our class discussion.
Requirements:
- You will be expected to use PowerPoint appropriately – again, as clarified in class – and you must use at least three slides.
- You should have written notes for your presentation, but you must not read directly from a script.
- You must communicate (and exemplify) at least five pieces of advice in exactly six minutes.