Caroline's presentation information

How should I write? How can I quantify, qualify, and represent a position in text? How should I present my position to an audience?

This unit puts a new twist on revision, using our phones to help us imagine ways to revise, rework, and recast previous work into visual presentations. The idea here is to transform the textual object of the .doc essay and transform it into something we can play on an iPhone. . One of the key elements of this unit is encouraging students to reframe their essay into an essential question (and their own particular answer). This type of project, wedded with a short Q&A, not only shows students the reality of audience, but also helps students own their ideas and credibility (as they have to defend them to more than 1-2 people).

Assignment: For your final in-class presentation, revise one of your earlier essays (“i” narrative, academic essay, or rhetorical analysis), or, potentially, even a combination of several, smaller assignments into it a visual essay (YouTube video).

Your audience will be our class, as we will screen these videos on the last days of class. Consider how you might expand, limit, and alter the assignment you are revising by changing medium and genre. Your final video (posted to our YouTube account) should be to be between three and four minutes in length.

Submitting: Either upload to YouTube or Vimeo by the date of your presentation: embed link and submit to the website on the appropriate site.

https://vimeo.com/193474656
 

Writing moves explored: brevity, analysis, incorporating research, visual imagery, and written / auditory word, genre