History of soccer
Dr Angela Schwer
ENGL 1108
Informative Paper Presentations
Purpose of the Assignment:
Students will be able to:
• Apply a variety of research sources in the service of their own analyses.
• Evaluate sources, assess the credibility of material, and identify bias.
• Use grammar and punctuation fluently.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and reasoning skills.
• Hone their organizational skills and personal writing style.
• Demonstrate the importance of audience in a writing situation and both adapt material and
employ rhetorical modes appropriately.
• Demonstrate facility in documentation protocols for citing sources.
• Speak about their ideas.
1. Create a Pecha Kucha-style presentation to inform the class about your topic.
Pecha Kuchas consist of 20 slides each displayed for 20 seconds for a presentation 6
minutes and 40 seconds long. These presentations have to be carefully rehearsed,
because you have only 20 seconds to explain each slide. Format observed: 1-5 pts
• Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you start working on your presentation.
(Be sure to click through all 6 pages)

Guide to Making a Pecha Kucha Presentation: Overview

• Here is a link to a help you set up Powerpoint or Google presentations so that
slides advance every 20 seconds automatically:

• Here are 2 examples of successful pecha kuchas:

http://www.pechakucha.org/presentations/what-if-anything-is-big-bird
2. Introduce your topic in a way that creates a cognitive dissonance for your audience,
ie do something unexpected (show an unusual picture, tell a story that seems to be
unrelated, then explain how it relates to your talk) so that the audience has to listen
to your talk to know where you are going. 1-5 points
3. Select the most relevant visuals.
Make sure that
A. Pictures you choose are big enough so that the audience can easily make out
what you want them to see.
B. Pictures are appropriate, even though the audience may not understand why
immediately.1-5 points
4. Try to explain the topic’s relevance to the world we live in. You may not find the
question “How is this topic related to the world ?” answered neatly in any materials
you are working with. Instead, you need to offer your own answer. 1-5 points
5. Prepare accurate, worthwhile content from approved sources. Include a 21st slide
as a Works Cited Slide which should include references to at least 2 Library
information sites in addition to Wikipedia or other Internet site. Where possible,
mention the source of the information verbally in your presentation, ie “The literary critic
Donald Davie states that…” or “According to a national survey done in 2005 by the Pew
Charitable Trust”…1-5 points
6. Present effectively to your audience—Show a confident presentation manner:
make good eye contact with audience, speak clearly, confidently and in an
interesting manner (no monotone). If you read directly from your script, then
practice so it doesn’t sound as though you are reading. Be sure to keep up with
your Powerpoint slides; rehearse carefully. 1-10 points
7. Conclude the presentation in a satisfying way—don’t just say “And that’s all I
found.” Instead, connect the topic to the work we read in class, or to the importance
of this topic in contemporary culture. 1-5 points
8. Forward me a copy of your powerpoint by email (outside Blackboard, please) after
you present it.

History of soccer
Dr Angela Schwer
ENGL 1108
Informative Paper Presentations
Purpose of the Assignment:
Students will be able to:
• Apply a variety of research sources in the service of their own analyses.
• Evaluate sources, assess the credibility of material, and identify bias.
• Use grammar and punctuation fluently.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and reasoning skills.
• Hone their organizational skills and personal writing style.
• Demonstrate the importance of audience in a writing situation and both adapt material and
employ rhetorical modes appropriately.
• Demonstrate facility in documentation protocols for citing sources.
• Speak about their ideas.
1. Create a Pecha Kucha-style presentation to inform the class about your topic.
Pecha Kuchas consist of 20 slides each displayed for 20 seconds for a presentation 6
minutes and 40 seconds long. These presentations have to be carefully rehearsed,
because you have only 20 seconds to explain each slide. Format observed: 1-5 pts
• Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you start working on your presentation.
(Be sure to click through all 6 pages)

Guide to Making a Pecha Kucha Presentation: Overview

• Here is a link to a help you set up Powerpoint or Google presentations so that
slides advance every 20 seconds automatically:

• Here are 2 examples of successful pecha kuchas:

http://www.pechakucha.org/presentations/what-if-anything-is-big-bird
2. Introduce your topic in a way that creates a cognitive dissonance for your audience,
ie do something unexpected (show an unusual picture, tell a story that seems to be
unrelated, then explain how it relates to your talk) so that the audience has to listen
to your talk to know where you are going. 1-5 points
3. Select the most relevant visuals.
Make sure that
A. Pictures you choose are big enough so that the audience can easily make out
what you want them to see.
B. Pictures are appropriate, even though the audience may not understand why
immediately.1-5 points
4. Try to explain the topic’s relevance to the world we live in. You may not find the
question “How is this topic related to the world ?” answered neatly in any materials
you are working with. Instead, you need to offer your own answer. 1-5 points
5. Prepare accurate, worthwhile content from approved sources. Include a 21st slide
as a Works Cited Slide which should include references to at least 2 Library
information sites in addition to Wikipedia or other Internet site. Where possible,
mention the source of the information verbally in your presentation, ie “The literary critic
Donald Davie states that…” or “According to a national survey done in 2005 by the Pew
Charitable Trust”…1-5 points
6. Present effectively to your audience—Show a confident presentation manner:
make good eye contact with audience, speak clearly, confidently and in an
interesting manner (no monotone). If you read directly from your script, then
practice so it doesn’t sound as though you are reading. Be sure to keep up with
your Powerpoint slides; rehearse carefully. 1-10 points
7. Conclude the presentation in a satisfying way—don’t just say “And that’s all I
found.” Instead, connect the topic to the work we read in class, or to the importance
of this topic in contemporary culture. 1-5 points
8. Forward me a copy of your powerpoint by email (outside Blackboard, please) after
you present it.