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Micropresentation

Micropresentation (5%, 5 points)

Presentations will adhere to our own special version of a Three Minute Thesis genre. You will have three minutes and no more than three slides. You are welcome to use a script, to speak extemporaneously, or to use note cards. It's up to you. Each slide may have up to but no more than ten words and up to but not more than one image. That is, you can have fewer than ten words and no images at all, if you choose. What's not allowable, however, are word walls, clip art, swoosh effects, or templates. I want to see simple, minimalist, no frills slides. Create the slides using Google Slides, and save the presentation file to the subfolder in your Google Folder called "Micropresentation."

The presentation must take as its focus one of the major projects in the class: literacy narrative, commonplace book, worknets, or ENGL1105 materials. Spend the brief talk discussing what you did and why, what you learned and how, what ways of thinking were expanded or deepened for you, and what you would do again if you had the chance to do it differently. Do not disclose grade information. Let the talk be light, fun, informal, creative, and playful; be careful, though, about attempts at humor that you have not practiced. 

Upload your completed slides to your Google Folder no later than noon on Wednesday, May 1. Presentations will be in class on Wednesday evening, May 1. We will discuss together in class your preference for learning ahead of time the order of presenters (i.e., who presents first, second, and so on).

Contact Information

Derek N. Mueller, PhD
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
Director of Composition
Department of English
Virginia Tech
Office: 315 Shanks Hall
Spring 2020 Office Hours: T, 12-3
Phone: +1-734-985-0485
dmueller@vt.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/

"[W]hat we teach our students is a consequence of what we understand writing to be" (215). Mary Lou Odom, Michael Bernard-Donals, and Stephanie Kerschbaum, "Enacting Theory: The Practicum as the Site of Invention," Don't Call It That: The Composition Practicum

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