Hello all,
Here is the feedback for the final presentation you did today in class and your grades so far. I hope you use these comments for the real presentation you will do in a year. 😉
I will attach my specific comments to your papers. You will be able to see them when I give them back.
You focused too much on reciting concepts, less on convincing people of the importance of your topic or, most importantly, telling your audience about the PURPOSE of your paper.
Do not distort the ideas of the authors you cite, do not use their ideas out of context.
Don’t rely so much on memory, you are the expert on the topic, so explain the ideas you have grasped.
Power Point slides are free. Create as many as you need and make sure the text is big enough to be seen by your audience.
Be careful with accuracy in pronunciation and grammar. At this point you should not make any mistakes, especially if you are doing an academic presentation. The title of your papers should have no mistakes. Correct those titles ASAP.
Do not say become in, researches, according to X, he says that…, be careful with subject- verb agreement, about of, determinate, importance, good morning TO everybody, it makes students TO learn.
Correct the proununciation of foreign, language, thousand, paper, focus, learning, instruction, direction, encourage, acquisition, develop, identify, PURPOSE, authentic.
Make sure the purpose of the paper is developed or tackled by means of the subsequent sections of your paper, and that the title, the purpose and the conclusions are clearly connected.
The title of your paper should not have more than 11 words.
If you have slides, why reading from papers? At this point you should not use papers at all. It does not look professional.
You provided justification for the topic you chose, but you did not provide reasons why your paper should be written and read.
Writing Research Paper Partial Grades December 2015
If a grade is wrong or if you submitted a task and the grade is not registered you have until today at noon to send me again the tasks.
That’s all, thank you and have a Merry Christmas 🙂
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