Friday, March 2: Complete and post your translation worksheet - this should be completed before your OCT appointment, but no later than Friday.

Monday, Mar 5- All drafted presentation materials (script, multimedia files, links, images) should be posted to your "Academic Presentation" folder by class time.

Wednesday Mar 7 - All revised presentation materials (script, multimedia files, links, images, and cover memo) should be posted to your "Academic Presentation" folder by class time. Presentations will be delivered during our evening Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Symposium.

For this assignment, you'll translate your written paper into an 8 minute oral presentation with your choice of multimedia support (such as PPT slides, screens you select from websites on your topic, or film clips). Each student will deliver his/her presentation as part of a panel of students; there will be a 5 minute question and answer session following each panel. The academic presentations will be presented during our Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Symposium on Wednesday, March 7.

You are required to meet with an OCT on this project and to draft and revise it before our final presentation date. For help with this first presentation assignment, turn to Envision chapter 8 and read carefully about strategies of designing and delivering a presentation.

Why are you delivering your research as an academic presentation?

For your presentation, you must clearly convey your research argument to your audience through use of strong oral rhetoric augmented by multimedia support. You should make strategic use of rhetorical appeals, should make an argument appropriate to your context and rhetorical situation, and should utilize the five canons of rhetoric effectively. In addition, you should use your previous experience with the Research-In-Progress presentation to strength your performance and structure of your oral argument.

There are several steps involved in completing this assignment:

1. Complete your translation worksheet and post it to your coursework folder by your OCT appointment, but no later than Friday, March 2: this worksheet is designed to help you think through the process of revising a written argument into one to be delivered as an oral/multimedia presentation.
2. Draft your presentation
3. Meet with an OCT to practice your presentation.
4. Upload your drafted presentation materials to coursework by Monday, March 5th.
5. Participate in a presentation practice and peer review session on March 5th.
6. Revise your presentation.
7. Upload your revised presentation materials and cover memo by classtime on Wednesday, March 7th.
8. Deliver your revised, academic presentation at our evening Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Symposium, Wednesday, March 7th.

As part of the Academic Presentation assignment, you are required to meet with an OCT to practice your presentation. The appointment hours for our CCR OCTs (Bill, Delford, Lindsay, and Melissa) are listed through the contacts link in the menu bar above. You can also meet with a different OCT if you'd prefer. Visit http://speakinghelp.stanford.edu to make an OCT appointment.

Keep in mind that if you want additional help with your presentation, you can also attend the general OCT drop-in hours Sunday through Thursday from 7-9pm in Sweet Hall 303. Visiting drop-in hours does not, however, count as your required OCT conference -- it is supplemental.

The cover memo is your opportunity to reflect on your process and rhetorical strategies in approaching this assignment. It can be informal in voice, but nevertheless should be clear, detailed, well-organized, and approximately 300 words long.

You should consider this memo to be a preface to your final, academic presentation. Here's what should be included in your cover memo (not necessarily in this order):

• A reflection on the process of developing your academic presentation: In completing this reflection, you would take into account the process of moving from written discourse (research paper draft) to oral discourse; the revisions you had to make to argument, language and content to accommodate this shift; the results of peer review and OCT meetings (you must include a brief report on your OCT meeting); and the process of revision.
• Reference to your trials and triumphs in creating this presentation, including tech inspirations or obstacles, questions of voice or delivery, moments of epiphany, reflections on practice sessions, etc.
• Discussion of how rhetoric factored into your work on this assignment (this part may very well be integrated with the earlier ones). Describe how your understanding of rhetorical appeals (pathos, logos, ethos), kairos, the five canons of rhetoric, and/or the rhetorical situtation factored into your drafting and revising of the presentation.

Some of these sections may be more developed than others, depending on your project. Your goal here is to provide an introduction to this presentation as a piece of research, writing, and rhetoric; however don't forget to use specific and concrete language and example in writing your memo.

Presentations will be graded based on the following criteria:

• Oral argument (clear & persuasive topic, thesis, and argument; appropriate and ethical use of source material to support argument; attention to time limitations; clear structure)
• Style (consistent use of high, medium or low style as appropriate; effective use of rhetorical strategies [narration, example, cause-effective, process, definition, division/classification] to structure argument; attention to oral style [for instance, parallelism, repetition, climactic order, signposting - use as appropriate]; effective implementation of rhetorical appeals)
• Rhetorical situation (effective assessment of audience-text-author dynamic for presentation; effective assessment of kairos)
• Multimedia (appropriate choice of multimedia [i.e. props, plasma screens, laptops, poster, whiteboard, PowerPoint, Explorer, etc.]); appropriate relation to oral argument; effective design and implementation; "grace under fire" i.e. dealing with tech glitches smoothly
• Delivery (pacing, vocal intonation & projection, use of voice for emphasis)
• Embodied rhetoric (purposeful gesture and demeanor, appropriate dress, use of classroom space)
• Memory (comfortable with material; discrete use of an mnemetic aids; ability to improvise or adjust speech as needed)

Please also note:

Cover memo - there will be a 1/4 grade deduction for failure to post cover memo (i.e. from a B+ to a B/B+)

Time requirements - Presentations should be 8 minutes in length; you will receive points off for presentations that are longer than 8 minutes.

Missing presentation - there will be a 1/2 grade deduction for skipping presentation date (without e-mailing ahead of time)

There are many resources available to you for your presentation:

• Envision chapter 8
• The OCTs -- you should make an official appointment through http://speakinghelp.stanford.edu; you can also visit the OCT drop-in hours Sunday through Thursday from 7-9pm in Sweet Hall 303. OCT appointment hours for our CCR OCTs are listed on our Contacts link.
• Contact Christine & Alyssa by e-mail if you have any questions.