narrative (if you’re doing cause/effect or compare/contrast, see other powerpoints)

NARRATIVE(if you’re doing cause/effect or

compare/contrast, see other PowerPoints)

*Choosing Presentation over Paper: a ‘how to’ guide

* Step One: outline Narrative

If your topic is compare/contrast, you should choose the three main aspects that you want to analyze each side along.

Example: How Barack Obama became president1. Beginning: family, education, philosophies and lessons

2. Middle: family, education, philosophies and lessons

3. End: family education, philosophies and lessons

*Step Two: Research

(if required)

*Do your research! Focus on the topics you outlined in step one, and find information to support them.

*Be sure to keep track of your sources!

*Try to put things in your own words, but if you can’t, use quotation marks

*Figure out the MLA citation for each source

* Step Two: Research (example)

Notes from BeTobaccoFree.gov : “Health Effects”

*Smoking leads to many different types of heart conditions, including heart disease and stroke

*“Every cigarette you smoke damages your breathing and scars your lungs.”

Full Source:

“Health Effects.” BeTobaccoFree. BeTobaccoFree.gov. 2014. Web. 12 May 2014.

* Step 3: Synthesize(narrative)

* Presentation: 12 Slides

* Slide 1 Introduction and thesis

* Slide 2 Beginning (descriptors for aspect #1)



* Slide 5 Middle (descriptors for aspect #1)



* Slide 8 End (descriptors for aspect #1)



* Slide 11 Conclusion

* Slide 12 Works Cited (if necessary)

*Step 3: Synthesize(example)

Topic: Life of Barack Obama

*Slide 1: Introduction succeeded despite challenges

*Slide 2: Beginning family life in Hawaii

*Slide 3: Beginning early education

*Slide 4: Beginning culture, philosophies of childhood

*Slide 5: Middle relationships in college; major events (marriage)

*Slide 6: Middle college education and political campaign: specific degrees, what was most meaningful

*Slide 7: Middle lessons learned from experiences

*Slide 8: End relationships now, and political friendships

*Slide 9: End how won campaign, how led to re-election

*Slide 10: End what he’s learned since becoming president

*Slide 11: Conclusion

*Slide 12: Works Cited

* Step 4: make sure you’ve cited everything!

*Even in presentations, if you include an idea or quote that is not entirely yours, you must put the author or work in parenthesis, along with the paragraph number, afterward:

Example:

Studies show no evidence that marijuana is actually a “gateway drug” (Smith par. 12).

* Step 5: Add pictures and make it pretty!

narrative (if you’re doing cause/effect or compare/contrast, see other powerpoints)

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