Did the presentation accomplish its goal? Did it sell the product/plan? Can the audience successfully answer questions about the material presented?
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The English 250 Test-Out exam is intended to test the communication skills that you already possess, specifically in rhetorical analysis, argument, and designing and orally presenting a visual argument using presentation software. This exam has two parts. In the first part you'll do a rhetorical analysis of an essay (we'll give you the essay at the test-out), and you'll write an argumentative essay of your own. In the second part, you'll prepare a two-minute oral presentation supported by a single electronically designed visual (slide, graph, poster, etc.).
For this assignment you will document a local event and present a textual and visual record of that event to a public audience. You will initially work in a group to identify a significant communication event occurring on campus or in the local area during a one-month period. As a group you will decide how best to preserve the event through various artifacts (video, audio, interviews, published accounts, news articles, etc.). Your group will submit a formal proposal outlining the project and your methods for collecting data that will accurately represent the event.
A source of information that you may not have considered is one mouse click away and may be one of the most valuable ways for you to gather facts and opinions about the issue you’ve chosen to explore. What is that source? Radio programs archived on the Web.
Whereas in the past, radio broadcasts were ephemeral—or at least the tapes of them were not widely available outside the company that put them on the airwaves—we can now easily access radio programs over the Internet in audio archives that allow free downloading of files.
Because successful communication depends on collaborative efforts between communicator and audience, your role as an audience for the poster presentations is as important as your role as speaker. Consider these three components of the audience role:
To create an opportunity for students to experiment with strategies for audience adaptation. To give students a chance to feel the discomfort associated with being listeners to a speech that was prepared with an audience different from the actual audience in mind.
Fifteen minutes of assignment explanation and planning at least one week prior to the speeches and then one seventy-five minute class session or one and a half or two fifty minute sessions to listen to and to process the speeches
Students can be exempted from English 150 and receive 3 hours of "T" credit for 150 if they meet the following criteria AND receive a "C" or better in English 250 taken at Iowa State University:
NOTE: The First-Year Composition Program became the ISUComm Foundation Courses Program beginning in Fall 2007. As part of this process, English 104 and 105 have been renumbered (English 150 and 250); refocused from an emphasis on writing-only to an integration of written, oral, visual, and electronic communication (WOVE); and restructured (shifting the second course to the sophomore level).
SPECIAL NOTE: The transfer information for English 150 and 250 remain the same as formerly from English 104 and 105.