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Giving a Ted Talk or Academic Lecture

 

YOUR TASKS:

 

  1. Construct a text of a specific genre that represents your discipline or field (your future profession), or an area of special interest.
    1. You have two options: Academic lecture or Ted Talk.
      • In either case, this text should emanate from a sense of interest, passion, fluency, and authority, as well as an understanding of what a Ted Talk or Academic Lecture actually is and does.
    2. You must write-out the lecture/talk in paragraph form AND create a detailed outline of this lecture/talk.
    3. You will deliver this 10 minute lecture or Ted Talk in front of class.

You can personalize your project, be somewhat creative; after all, “genre becomes a way of navigating social activity.  As such, it is dynamic, because the conditions of social activity are always in flux.  [As a result], recurrence involves variation” (Berkenkotter and Huckin).

However, despite its personal touch, the “text” you create must “do” whatever is typical of such a text (typifies that particular social action). In other words, each text (lecture, Ted Talk) fits into a particular genre, and plays a particular role in that discourse community. We are focusing on the specificity of genre and how it acts as a kind of constituent of the culture to which it belongs.

 

The assignments for this project are outlined below with possible points for each assignment. You have 4 different assignments that add-up to 100 points total.

 

  1. Presentation – 35 pts (I want to clarify: this is a student-friendly assignment in that you are working on material that should really interest you. If this is not the case, and you’re not very interested in your Lecture or Ted Talk, re-think your project. Having said all of that, to get 63-70 points on this particular written and live presentation portion of the assignment, your text and lecture/talk have to be very well conceived and executed with a nice dash of professionalism, smarts, insight and confidence (you have to create a credible Academic lecture or Ted Talk). We are constructing and presenting actual texts that play specific roles in a discourse community. I use a simple presentation rubric. Due: Date of your Presentation – TBA.
  2. Written Lecture or Ted Talk – 35 point (This is in paragraph form and in outline form. Length is determined by your detail and attention to length of lecture/talk: see 10 minutes).  Due: 10/29. See Calendar for submission guidelines.
  1. You must write a Rhetorical Analysis of your Lecture or Ted Talk – 15 pts  (3 pages MLA)  Due: 11/7 – See Calendar for submission guidelines.
  1. You must write a Rhetorical Analysis of another student’s video –15 pts (1-2 pages MLA) Due: 11/7 – See Calendar for submission guidelines.

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