Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

Final Presentation Guidelines

Final Paper

The final reading response (2 pp.; MLA format) presentation is a way for you to engage thoughtfully with the issues and questions we have read about and discussed this semester and to bring together skills in reading, critical thinking, and writing that we have worked on these past few months. The writing helps you organize and express your own ideas and the presentation forum enables you to have the benefit of others' critical thinking on the issues you are grappling with in your own examination of The Great Gatsby. In relooking and revisng your reading response for the presentation, you might want to look over the following guideline.

Revision

Rewrite to fix problems regarding the argument, support, prose, organization, mechanics, and style to  make your paper more effective. Some things to keep in mind as you proofread and edit your work:

• Does my title show that I have a point to make?

• Is my thesis sound, clear, and interesting?

• Have I supported my thesis with compelling evidence?

• Is the organization of my paper logical and appropriate to the arguments I am making?

• Is my language clear, consistent, and suited to the subject matter?

• Do each of my paragraphs have a clear point and coherence?

• Are my sentences varied, interesting, and effective?

• Do my verbs agree with their subjects? Pronouns with their nouns?

• Is my paper free of spelling mistakes?

• Have I cited my sources properly?

Final Presentation

Presentations of your final reading response is on week 16 of class: Monday, November 24, 2014 and Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Each panel of three papers will have fifteen minutes to present their study of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. This will be followed by a ten-minute question and answer session. A moderator will be presiding over the presentations and discussion session of each panel, introducing the speakers, mediating the questions and responses, and making sure things stay on schedule.

Respondents give constructive comments on the panelists' talk, indicating illuminating and effective points made, pointing out problems to fix ex. content, logic, substantiation, organization, clarification, delivery, and giving further commentary and opinions on the issues being discussed.

 
You will be graded both for your performance in giving your talk and in responding to your classmates' presentations, how you present your own ideas and how you show that you know how to listen to, think about, and discuss ideas that others propose.

A program of the final presentation schedule will be posted on our detailed schedule page once panel and paper titles, speakers and moderators are finalized. You are responsible for e-mailing me any revisions to your work title by Sunday, November 23, 2014.

Please inform me of any special equipment needs, otherwise our usual computer (which uses Microsoft Office 2007) and LCD projector is provided.

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Last updated November 24, 2014