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English 1302 Presentation Assignment

Throughout the 1301/1302 class(es) you have been learning and putting into practice critical reading and coherent writing. At this point in the semester you have used these skills in a number of ways, and now you are going to use these skills on your RPP. In order to demonstrate your understanding of course concepts, your presentations will consist of two elements: a rhetorical analysis of your own argumentative situation and an accompanying description of your writing process. In effect, this presentation will be a demonstration that you understand and can use the techniques and processes that this class aims to teach both in practice and analysis.

Your Presentation should cover the following information:

1. Issue/Exigence: Explain why you were interested in this topic, and what occasion gave rise to the need or opportunity for persuasion.

2. Conversation/Sources: Briefly explain what had already been established in the discourse prior to your argument. Explain which sources you decided to use for your RPP and why you feel that each of them is both essential as an element of your paper and how they represent some aspect of the ongoing conversation about this issue.

3. Claim: Explain how you came to the claim you decided to argue for, what your claim was, and why you feel like it was sufficiently qualified and reasonable.

4. Audience: Explain who your target audience was and why you picked them. Also, explain what values the audience holds that you decided to appeal to and what decisions you made in your writing to do so. (pathos)

5. Logos: Explain what types of reasons and evidence you chose to use in addressing the concerns of your particular audience and why you chose to organize them the way you did in your RPP.

6. Author (You): Explain, in your position as the author, what decisions you made in your RPP to establish ethos. Also explain your strategy for coming across as both knowledgeable and fair and how that manifested in your writing.

7. Naysayer: Explain who your (real or extrapolated) naysayer(s) is/are and why you chose him/her/them out of those available. Explain the common ground behind your position and that of your naysayer and how you answered his/her/their concerns for your target audience.

Your Presentation must meet the following requirements:

1. It would be a good idea to include specific quotations from your paper as evidence (for those elements of this assignment that call for such evidence) as they would be an excellent way to demonstrate that you actually did what you are describing.

2. Adhere to Times New Roman, 12 point font for each slide that is in text form. 3. Since this in an analysis of your own work, you should feel free to use “I.” 4. Incorporated images should be relevant, appropriate, and well thought-out. 5. Remember, the claim you are making for this presentation is that you have successfully

done these things in your RPP and are therefore capable of describing them. 6. Your presentation should be no less than 7 slides, and no more than 25 slides. Anything

less than 7 or more than 25 slides will result in a failure of the assignment. This means you will receive a zero for the presentation. Please make sure you adhere to the font and size specified in the content instructions.