Considerations for grading:

Good intro to capture attention
Clear and obvious main points with smooth and obvious transitions from point to point
Well-planned conclusion
Delivery: volume (loud), rate (slow), eye contact with audience, articulation (don't run words together)
Appropriate use of visual aids
Relevance of your three emailed questions to your presentation's content

Your oral presentation should be based on something from your paper #3.  It should not be merely a summary of your paper.  An oral presentation should be interesting, informative, and memorable; a mere summary of your paper is likely to be dull, uninformative, and forgettable!  Unlike your paper, it need not be argumentative (designed to support a thesis).  It is best to pick some aspect or part of your paper that you found especially interesting, unusual, or surprising and present it in more detail than you did in your paper - typically in your research you will have found more stuff than you actually included in your paper, and some of it might provide a basis for a fascinating oral presentation.  Judicious use of visual aids, PowerPoint, the Web, etc. is recommended.

Oral presentation DWAs.

1) By at least the day before your scheduled presentation, email to BH and FW three questions that those in the audience should be able answer if they paid attention to your presentation, and that they should not be able to answer if they didn't pay attention!  They can be multiple choice questions with three or four answer choices, or short (just a few words) written-answer questions; no true-false questions, and no multiple choice questions with only two choices.  The point of this is that you should have clearly in mind at least three important things you want to get across to the audience, and these questions should be designed to confirm (or disconfirm!) that you successfully communicated them to the audience!

For group presentations, each person should have three questions on his or her part in the presentation.

2) After your presentation, your three questions will be displayed on the screen and everyone in the class will provide written answers and hand them in to you.  You will grade them and hand in the results the next day, in the form of a fraction (# right/total #) written beside a copy of each question.  This will provide a rough indication of how well you got your points across!  For instance, if only 6 of 18 in the audience get a question right, you didn't get that point across very well, whereas 15/18 would be pretty good.

Your grade on 1) will be based on how well your three questions correlate with the content of your presentation.  You'll get credit for 2) if you turn it in the day after your presentation.

REHEARSAL FOR YOUR PRESENTATION!

The key to a good presentation is practice.  Do rehearsals this way:

O - ON YOUR FEET. Practice the way you'll actually be doing it: standing up, gesturing, etc.

O - OUT LOUD.  Speak out, with all the inflections and intonations you'll actually use.  Rehearsals should be realistic!

A - AT SOMETHING.  Imagine you have an audience (use furniture or pictures on the wall as substitutes).  Speak to the audience (eye contact with the table!), and move your eye contact around.

M - MANY TIMES.  The more you practice, the better you get!