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English 1110 Autumn Semester 2014 Dan Knapper
English 1110 BACKtalk Introduction Assignment
Assignment:
Below you will find a series of questions which will help you gather information about your partner’s BACKtalk project. Your assignment will be to come up with a brief (about 1 minute long) introduction to your partner’s presentation. Your goal will be to both spark your classmates’ interest in the presentation and to prepare them for the question and answer session. You will need to take careful notes during class today and thoughtfully reflect on your partner’s presentation after class to determine how to best introduce his or her ideas.
DUE: November 3rd (Mon.)
Getting started:
Use the questions below to guide the conversation about your BACKtalks. Keep in mind that this is only a starting point for your discussion. Feel free to incorporate any other information that comes up during the class period that could help enhance the class’s understanding and enjoyment of either presentation.
2. Primary Source The subject of your BACKtalk should emerge from an interesting idea from the Analytical Research Paper that you would like to explore further. Describe this process for your partner. Where did your idea first come from? How did the idea evolve over the course of the semester? What made you want to explore this particular element over others?
3. Course Theme One of the requirements of the BACKtalk is that it remain connected to the ideas raised in the course theme. How can what you learned while researching your ARP help us to clarify, extend, or complicate our understanding of the course theme? How will this be explored within your BACKtalk? What questions does it raise for aspects of the course theme we have previously discussed in class?
4. Social/Cultural/Political Context Thinking on our earlier discussions of public writing, one of the goals of the BACKtalk assignment is to move ideas from your academic research into the public sphere. With that in mind, what is the significance of your BACKtalk to the general public? How does it connect to any contemporary debates in social, political, or cultural discourse?
5. So what? In the spirit of Writing Analytically, briefly try to answer the “so what?” question about your project. How does the issue you discuss in your BACKtalk affect the lives of your audience? What strategies do you use to try to appeal to their particular interests or concerns?
Using the answers your partner gives to these questions, write a one minute introduction (100-125 words) that does the following: creates excitement about the topic at hand, connects it to material from class, and generates ideas for further discussion.