So the Symposium Presentation seems to (needlessly) stress students out. Maybe it’s because the assignment is in a different format than a traditional essay, but let me tell you, the Symposium Presentation is incredibly doable and can be a lot of fun. Take a deep breath with me. Iiiinnnnn. Oooouuutttt. See? We’re all good here. Feel free to use this for exam week! The Symposium Presentation is similar to a PowerPoint presentation or Prezi. (Although we’ll be using Adobe Spark this semester for the first time. Prepare for a learning curve, but we’ll make it!) The two major components of the Symposium Presentation are: Your Images+Citations and Your Text, both related to your specific Class in America Today research angle that you’ve been working with on your ARP. You’ve already been collecting images throughout the semester for this presentation. You’ll end up with 15 images—no more, no less—with citations for those images included at the end of the presentatio
Well, there’s only so much I can do to make a blog post about thesis statements interesting, so prepare yourselves for some irrelevant Michael Jackson gifs dispersed throughout. I’m sure most of you have had some sort of instruction on thesis statements, but often, students will be taught simplistic methods for developing a thesis that they sort of latch onto rather than using the beginner’s method at first and then evolving toward a more complex method of thesis development. Think about giving your thesis a makeover. That look you had going in high school was fine for back them, but it just isn't working for you anymore now that you're a collegiate superstar. Time to take it to the next level! Michael's excited about how great your thesis will be So what makes a strong thesis? Promotes thinking : leads you to arrive at ideas, rather than just stating the obviou Reduces scope: separates useful evidence from the mass of details. (Sometim