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You handed in your First Lecture
approximately one month ago; read your first lecture with new eyes.Your Draft #2 is due one week
from today on October 2, 2013. Please submit your lecture electronically and in
print.
Revision Directions
As you read,
think about the question posed by your teacher on your first draft. Then,
conduct a thorough revision by going through the following steps:
A. Apply the
rhetorical triangle to your text.
- Identify who you are as a speaker: revise to make certain your identity as speaker and your “ethos” or credibility is clear.
- Identify your subject. Revise to narrow your topic to create a focus for the audience who will be listening to you.
- Identify your audience clearly and specifically; revise to acknowledge your audience and connect to them.
- Identify your goal. Revise to make your goal clear, either at the beginning or end of your lecture.
B. Consider the
appeals that are appropriate to your subject, goal and audience.
- Identify opportunities for appeals to ethos; revise to include appeals based in trustworthiness and credibility. Mark your essay with E in these areas.
- Identify opportunities for appeals to logos; revise to include appeals based in facts or statistics your audience may need to be educated about your topic. Mark your essay with L in these areas.
- Identify opportunities for appeals to pathos; revise to include appeals to the emotions you want to engage in your audience so they are engaged with your lecture. Mark your essay with P in these areas.
C. Keeping the
information in mind from our discussions of Chapter 1-2 in Shea, read your draft
“closely” and annotate it for diction and syntax.
- What patterns about your own diction do you detect? Revise to assist your audience in listening by choosing more precise and vivid words.
- What patterns in syntax do you detect? Revise to assist your audience in listening by using sentence structure to more clearly indicate the relationship between ideas and outline the structure of your lecture, especially around transitions.
This is NOT a time to
change your topic, even if you are unhappy with it. Conduct the revision first.Then, after the
revision, you will have an opportunity to propose a new topic; after conducting
the revision, you will have more clarity about why you want to switch and a
more clear idea about what topic might be better suited to you and this
assignment.
I apologize is someone else already asked this question, but what is the expectation for the lecture's duration?
ReplyDeleteThat, Brian, depends on the nature of your lecture. We have had students take a whole class period, a half period, 15 minutes, 10 minutes. Develop your lecture first and as we revise and edit, the appropriate length for your topic and audience becomes more clear.
ReplyDeleteThis was helpful, thank you.
DeleteKind of random but still a good question; should we start to also think about or prepare our presentation as well? Meaning if I want to do a power point in the background would you recommend beginning to create one now?
ReplyDeleteNick,
ReplyDeleteAlthough you are free to start working on your visual component as you are inspired to do so, this revision is for the purpose of developing your train of thought, the text of your lecture. There will be a revision devoted solely to the presentation technique. This revision asks you to think about your lecture as a rhetorical event and will become the basis for your other choices down the line.
Thank you Dr. G, I realized after posting that comment that the presentation would have a strong base on the audience and that I need to be aware of who they are in order to actually create an effective presentation.
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