Journal — Rough Draft Outline and Speech

This Journal assignment is due on Friday 3/29 @11:59pm:

A Rough Draft of your Outline AND a rough draft of your Script or Essay that makes-up your Ted Talk or Lecture. In other words, I want to see your progress in organizing and writing this Ted Talk/Lecture. See the samples on Canvas that I showed you during the 3/15 Lecture.

Some guidelines for your outline and your speech (Talk or Lecture):

  • This is for a 10 minute presentation.
  • This is either for a Ted Talk audience, which is a broader segment of the population, probably fairly educated, etc.
    • Remember the discussion of genre. There are certain criteria that help define a Ted Talk “text.