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Itzel Jimenez
College Writing II
16 May 2019
In the beginning, I was slightly confused when Dr. Wielgos introduced the assignment to
the class. The reason is that since it was multi-modal, I believed that I could do some video with
animation in it based on information from the research paper I wrote. However, Dr. Wielgos
wanted us to present our essay in a PowerPoint format and use his template. Even though he
elaborated it thoroughly, I did not understand––even though I also read the orange textbook on
doing presentations. Luckily since the Celebration of Scholarship was occurring last week before
the due date, I ventured around the Arts and Sciences buildings and looked at certain poster
boards where their posters look identical to the template the professor gave us. I observed their
format and how they arrange data and claims onto their boards. From my observations, I finally
comprehended the assignment entirely. From there, I was slowly typing out some significant
claims and counterarguments from my argumentative synthesis. There were times where I had to
reword the citations in order to have more space for my graph as visual evidence. Also, I thought
of a good counterargument that could have improved my paper like how there are adolescents
who cannot identify themselves on what profession they would like to be in. It was effective
since I was speaking for the students more than the educational developers. During class, I
remember listening to Erik that he wants the presentation slide to look very neat and organized
because it would look like trash if I was not careful about the arrangement and the design. For
instance, for my claims and counterargument, I bolded them to clearly indicate that those phrases
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are my topic sentences. For the speaking portion of the presentation, I wrote phrases and a few
keywords as reminders on concepts I would talk about. For instance, I elaborated that Duckworth
would applaud for Mr. Andrew’s hard work on gathering attention from his students by
comparing lyrics from pop cultural music with Old English Poems which portrays grit or
perseverance from the English teacher. From there, I practiced multiple times on presenting my
research that I worked on for the past couple of weeks. Sometimes, I had to erase or change
certain phrases from my flashcards since my timing was a few seconds over the five minutes
given. I also practiced on not having a monotonous voice as I thought about my priest from St.
Dominic. The assertion of me claiming that is that whenever I listen to his sermons, his voice
changes when he talks about a certain verse from the Gospel or he raises his volume when there
is a significant detail mentioned in from the readings. Yet, I don’t have the same confidence as
he does. I was shaking during my presentation. Auspiciously, from the orange textbook, I just
looked at the wall behind the crowd to prevent myself from getting any panic attacks.