Cross-Cultural Blog

During the week of May 11th, several classes from Stanford University and the University of Sydney met through video conferencing to practice their presentation skills and talk about their research topics -- within the framework of intercultural exchange. The students in Sydney were studying writing and presentation across cultures -- while the Stanford students were all enrolled in writing class, but with a variety of themes : The Rhetoric of Gaming, the Rhetoric of Global Leadership, and the Rhetoric of the Bicycle, to name just a few.

Below you'll find the students' reflections on this experience.

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Below you'll find best practices for presenting ideas (whether that be an analysis of a visual text or a research topic) generated by globally distributed student groups comprised of students from Stanford University and the University of Sydney. The students developed these lists after presenting to each other during a video conference on the week of May 11th.

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Hello everyone in Uppsala and at Stanford!

Please post a comment here to explain your group's discussion, spoof writing, and what you thought of this video-conference connection today. See the lesson plan here: http://ccr.stanford.edu/workshops/050409.html

What did you learn about rhetoric across cultures?
What was most memorable?
What new insights do you have that you can use for your own research paper and future?

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