Sunday, November 21, 2010

Suggestions for your speech

You will be utilizing your blog as the background and the structure of your final speech. You should consider the following points when constructing your talk:

1) Introduce your topic - try to capture your audience's attention immediately. Explain why you selected this topic, why it's important, and why we should care. No one wants to see a speech that is not important or useful. So your job in the introduction is to prove to us that your speech is worth our time.

2) Explain your issue - use examples and clear descriptions to show us that this is a relevant issue worth exploring. Clearly express the social tension or problem you are addressing with your speech.

3) Describe your sources - where did you find information on your issue? What kinds of websites did you use? Was the information from various websites considerably different? Why did you choose the use these sites as data sources?

4) Share some of the comments and quotes you found in your data - What categories did you form and what different points of view did you find? You may want to show any websites, headlines, or (short) video clips that you used as data sources. Make sure you give clear examples of data from each category so your audience has a clear understanding of why you have organized your data in such a way.

5) Share the results of your survey questions - are these answers interesting? Did you expect these kinds of responses? What do these results say about the issue? What inferences can you make based on the responses?

6) Give a brief summary or conclusion - Summarize your work briefly so everyone understands your main point. What have you learned from this? What should we learn from your speech? What new questions do you have about this issue?

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