Preparing Papers

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Preparing Papers Speeches

• Lectures answer the questions.
• Now it is your time to answer the questions!

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Approaching papers presentations with confidence

• You can approach speeches and papers in the same
  fashion
• Choosing a topic
• Researching the important aspects of the topics
• Organizing thoughts around a central idea
  (Thesis)
• Presenting the information (paper or speech)

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Choosing a topic

• Take reasonable risk
• Chose a topic that is challenging and scholarly,
  but not over your head!
• Identity the major questions (Thesis) that the
  paper/speech will answer
• This is called Super recap question

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Choosing a topic

• Identify more than one possible super recap
  question
• Create a CC web chart to compare/contrast the
  topics of the various possible super recap
  questions on
• Scope narrow vs. broad
• Academic importance
• Personal familiarity/interest
• Information availability
• Topic fit to requirements

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Ask questions that will be answered in your
presentation

• Organize the questions in a outline format
• Are they reflection
• Are they recap
• Use a Skeleton Key diagram to visualize the
  questions
• For/Against
• Analysis
• Time-line
• Cause/Effect
• Given/Find

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Do research to find the answers

• Use Compare/Contrast web chart (CC web chart) and
  the skeleton key diagram to organize the
  information that you find to answer your
  questions.

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Very important research considerations

• Validity!
• Is the information valid?
• Who is responsible for the information?
• How old is the information?
• What evidence supports this info?

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Very important research considerations

• Plagiarism!
• Be sure to put all paraphrased ideas
• IN YOUR OWN WORDS!
• Be sure to reference all ideas that belong to
  someone else!
• When in doubt, site it!
• Dont know how to site it, Just Ask!

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Why site it

• It was not your idea
• You did not do the research to clam the idea as
  your own.
• Using someone elses ideas makes your ideas
  stronger.
• If you dont site it you can and will be liable
  to not only to the statement but the
  misrepresentation of it.

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The topic sentence

• Take a Recap question or Reflection question and
  write a sentence from it
• Use this sentence as the sentence that the
  paragraph answers
• Organize the answer to the question as the body
  of the paragraph

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Supporting the Information

• Take the info that youve collected and organized
  in a CC web harts and SKDs and use it as
  supporting information for the topic sentence
• Be sure that all info in the paragraph related to
  topic sentence

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Concluding sentences

• Transition concluding sentences
• lead to the next paragraph
• OR
• summary concluding sentences
• summarize the paragraph

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Edit and proof papers

• Evaluate each and every sentence in paper
• Do NOT just use spell-check and grammar-check!
• Correct typos before handing in

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Preparing to give oral presentations

• Being will-prepared with the content and
  well-rehearsed for the presentation will
  eliminate most if not all nervousness.

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Organize the paper of speech

• Prepare body paragraphs
• Write the topic sentence
• Support the topic sentence with body information
• Write the final sentence

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Prepare the introduction

• State the thesis
• Grab the attention of the audience

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Prepare the conclusion

• Re-state the thesis
• Summarize the questions asked and answered
• Proof read and edit (for papers)
• Rehearse and choose a style (for speech)

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See book