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NARRATIVE(if you’re doing cause/effect or
compare/contrast, see other PowerPoints)
*Choosing Presentation over Paper: a ‘how to’ guide
* Step One: outline Narrative
If your topic is compare/contrast, you should choose the three main aspects that you want to analyze each side along.
Example: How Barack Obama became president1. Beginning: family, education, philosophies and lessons
2. Middle: family, education, philosophies and lessons
3. End: family education, philosophies and lessons
*Step Two: Research
(if required)
*Do your research! Focus on the topics you outlined in step one, and find information to support them.
*Be sure to keep track of your sources!
*Try to put things in your own words, but if you can’t, use quotation marks
*Figure out the MLA citation for each source
* Step Two: Research (example)
Notes from BeTobaccoFree.gov : “Health Effects”
*Smoking leads to many different types of heart conditions, including heart disease and stroke
*“Every cigarette you smoke damages your breathing and scars your lungs.”
Full Source:
“Health Effects.” BeTobaccoFree. BeTobaccoFree.gov. 2014. Web. 12 May 2014.
* Step 3: Synthesize(narrative)
* Presentation: 12 Slides
* Slide 1 Introduction and thesis
* Slide 2 Beginning (descriptors for aspect #1)
* Slide 3 Beginning (descriptors for aspect #2)
* Slide 4 Beginning (descriptors for aspect #3)
* Slide 5 Middle (descriptors for aspect #1)
* Slide 6 Middle (descriptors for aspect #2)
* Slide 7 Middle (descriptors for aspect #3)
* Slide 8 End (descriptors for aspect #1)
* Slide 9 End (descriptors for aspect #2)
* Slide 10 End (descriptors for aspect #3)
* Slide 11 Conclusion
* Slide 12 Works Cited (if necessary)
*Step 3: Synthesize(example)
Topic: Life of Barack Obama
*Slide 1: Introduction succeeded despite challenges
*Slide 2: Beginning family life in Hawaii
*Slide 3: Beginning early education
*Slide 4: Beginning culture, philosophies of childhood
*Slide 5: Middle relationships in college; major events (marriage)
*Slide 6: Middle college education and political campaign: specific degrees, what was most meaningful
*Slide 7: Middle lessons learned from experiences
*Slide 8: End relationships now, and political friendships
*Slide 9: End how won campaign, how led to re-election
*Slide 10: End what he’s learned since becoming president
*Slide 11: Conclusion
*Slide 12: Works Cited
* Step 4: make sure you’ve cited everything!
*Even in presentations, if you include an idea or quote that is not entirely yours, you must put the author or work in parenthesis, along with the paragraph number, afterward:
Example:
Studies show no evidence that marijuana is actually a “gateway drug” (Smith par. 12).
* Step 5: Add pictures and make it pretty!