Final Presentation Guidelines

The final two class meetings (5/4 and 5/6) will consist of presentations of your Project 1 Public Documents. Each of you will be required to showcase your public document to the class, as well as discuss its overall rhetorical dimensions. Don’t worry if you’re not done constructing your public document. Your presentation is meant to give the class a good idea of what you are creating, your rhetorical reasonings behind your chosen form for your public document, and how effectively you are communicating your overall project to a public audience.

Presentation times are non-negotiable, so make sure to come prepared on your assigned date. For those of you working with digital picture files, videos, or web sites, you will have the computer in the classroom at your disposal.

Here is the presentation schedule:

Monday, 5/4

Bahena	Isaac
Baird	Stephen
Castillo	Jose
Cavazos	Lauro
Cavazos	Michelle
Chavez	Santos
Espinosa	Roberto
Esquivel	Giselle
Garcia	Maximiliano
Gonzalez	Gabriel
Gutierrez	Raquel
Llanas	Edgar
Manrique De Lara	Paulette

Wednesday, 5/6

Mazo	Carla
Mendoza	James
Meza	Victor
Ramirez	Alan
Ramirez	Jose
Rios	Mario
Rodriguez	Monica
Rojas	Maria
Salinas	Megan
Stivalet	Jean Paul
Valdez	Rubi

Here are the requirements for your presentation:

1. Keep your presentation between 5-6 minutes at the most
2. Provide a brief summary of Project 1 essay, research and findings, and overall conclusions.
3. Showcase/describe your Project 1 Public Document before the class by answering the following questions:
• How does your public document connect to the claims/conclusions in your Project 1 Essay?
• What types of rhetorical choices did you consider in the process of creating your Project 1 Public Document?
• How easy/difficult was it to construct your public text? What other forms did your public document take before you settled on this final form?
• Overall, how/why is your Project 1 Public Document rhetorically effective, and what do you hope to accomplish with it?
4. Provide one (1) open-ended question for class discussion.
• Don’t ask closed questions like this: Did you like my public document?
• Ask open questions like this: Why/how is my public document rhetorically effective? Why/how is this the best form to communicate my overall project? What specific audiences will my public text impact the most/least?

In addition to this, on the days you are not presenting, you will also be required to complete a 1-page, typed, single-spaced summary AND response to your favorite Public Document presentation. This document should 1) state the name of the author of the public document, 2) detail what the presentation covered, and 3) discuss how/why this public document is rhetorically effective/ineffective. Summary/responses should be composed in your Google Drive shared folder by the final portfolio deadline. Title your file in the following manner: PresentationResponse_YourFullName.

I'm looking forward to all of your Project 1 Public Documents next week!