How to present texts: detailed guide
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How to prepare text presentations:
Hand-out: the handout (max. 1 page) should reflect following points 2 - 6
Please send it to me a day ahead of class and i'll print them out or bring print-outs.
Structure:
1. State your aim of the presentation: what is that you want you to tell us today (personally)
2. Quick background info on the author
3. Occasion, character and aim of the text (book/article; academic, polemic; historical, philosophical; argues for or against xy)
4. Main thesis / theses in a few words
5. Principal arguments
6. Pick up 3 - 5 central concepts on which the text hinges and give us the author's definition (you are invited to comment if you find them interesting or strange)
7. Your comment: allow for sufficient time to comment: is the author's thesis convincing, what do you find particlarly interesting or what needs criticism; it canbe just a detail or the main picture; or just: what would you want to retain fom the text; was it useful at all or confusing, and why?
8. Formulate 2 questions for the public
Hand-out: the handout (max. 1 page) should reflect following points 2 - 6
Please send it to me a day ahead of class and i'll print them out or bring print-outs.
Structure:
1. State your aim of the presentation: what is that you want you to tell us today (personally)
2. Quick background info on the author
3. Occasion, character and aim of the text (book/article; academic, polemic; historical, philosophical; argues for or against xy)
4. Main thesis / theses in a few words
5. Principal arguments
6. Pick up 3 - 5 central concepts on which the text hinges and give us the author's definition (you are invited to comment if you find them interesting or strange)
7. Your comment: allow for sufficient time to comment: is the author's thesis convincing, what do you find particlarly interesting or what needs criticism; it canbe just a detail or the main picture; or just: what would you want to retain fom the text; was it useful at all or confusing, and why?
8. Formulate 2 questions for the public
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