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PowerPoint Portfolio

Purpose

The portfolio is a culmination of the work that you have done this semester. The text that you produce for this portfolio will be a presentation of the different digitally composed projects you have done and a rhetorical statement that explains what you have learned about composing in an electronic environment. Think of the portfolio as a way of "marketing" your digital rhetoric knowledge and skills.


Epistemological Process

As a way to showcase your digital rhetoric knowledge and skills, you will create a PowerPoint presentation will discuss (in an order that you choose)...

Rhetorical Statement

For each of these project, you will want to explain to your audience...

  • your rhetorical strategies for composing the text
  • reflect upon the response to work
  • what the project taught you about writing with digital writing technologies

Additionally the slide show should include an overall argument about digital writing technologies' influence on your reading and writing of digital texts. This can be positioned at the beginning and/or end of the presentation.


Writing Instructions

Using the principles about PowerPoint that we will be learning in this class, you will compose a 10-20 slide presentation. The organization of the portfolio is up to your discretion; however, you will want to include...

  • a discussion of the four projects and a rhetorical statement
    • talking points that address the rhetorical statement prompts
    • visuals from the projects
  • a final slide (or two) that list the references informed your work

Additional parameters will be different for the poster session and the final submission.

Poster Session

For the poster session, each of you will be occasionally standing by your own slide show (being presented on a computer monitor) while your peers, instructors, and administrators view your work and ask you questions.

As a result you will want to use the timer function in PowerPoint to keep the show in a continuous loop. This will give your audience an opportunity to read the talking points, see the visuals, and ask you to elaborate on your presentation.

Final Submission

The audience of the final submission is the instructor. Therefore, in 750-1000 words you will elaborate upon the talking points that you made on the slides. In essence, you are creating a script for the slide show. You will want to cite texts that influenced your composition or an understanding of your work; make sure your reference list

To present this discussion, you will use PowerPoint's note function. Distribute this text throughout the slide show where is it appropriate.

Submit the PowerPoint Portfolio to the instructor as an email attachment (XXX-PPP.ppt) by 1pm on December 9, 2005

Criteria

In addition to the general evaluation criteria, the instructor will be looking for evidence of...

  • your understanding of rhetoric
  • your understanding of the digital rhetoric principles we have learned throughout the semester
  • thoughtful reflection about your rhetorical process
  • a cohesive PowerPoint Presentation
  • an appropriate application of PowerPoint composition principles
  • a sense of audience–are the talking points short and dense so that your audience can understand the slide show? Does the elaborated discussion appropriately build upon these points?
  • an appropriate use of conventions, including APA citation formatting

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