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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Outline Workshop

  1. Show your commercial and the outline. 
  2. Discuss some potential ways to improve. Focus on:
    1. Clarity and specificity of the claims about purpose and effectiveness. 
    2. Sufficiency and relevance of reasons and evidences to support the claims. 
    3. Effectiveness of the introductory hook and the closing hook.
    4. Overall organization of the outline. 
  3. Each member should offer at least two substantive suggestions. 
  4. Finally, go to ICON and revise the outline you submitted there based on the feedbacks you received.  

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Questions about First Major Speech Assignment

Go through the assignment prompt and post at least two questions about it here as a comment. 

Review of Unit 1

1. What were the most challenging parts of the assignment? What do you think could be changed/done to make it better/more useful?
2. In preparation for the assignment, we did several things like
  • Discussing basic analytical concepts (SLR, AATP, etc.)
  • Discussing the basic outline of the paper
  • Analyzing sample papers
  • Peer reviewing first drafts
  • Conducting individual conferences
Which of them were the most and the least useful?