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What is this assignment about?
In this assignment, you will write a review essay on a TED talk, evaluating the talk’s strengths and weaknesses based on its purpose, audience, main content, and presentation (visual aspects).
Strategies for this assignment:
Go over what you’ve learned about various review genres and strategies in class. Understand that your purpose is to evaluate and that your audience will be the general public who have not watched the talk yet.
When it comes to brainstorming, you can think about the following questions:
What is the purpose of the TED talk, and does it achieve its purpose?
Who is it for, and does the talk cater to its audience?
Does the talk’s content sound convincing and interesting?
What’s the speaker’s professional background and how does it affect the effectiveness of his talk?
Are the speaker’s words, tone, and other components of the talk effective in achieving the talk’s purpose?
The strengths and weaknesses do not have to be evenly distributed (it is not necessarily half good and half bad). If you think there is no weakness at all, you can also point out things that you wish the talk could address or improve.
Think about how you want to structure your review essay and what tone you would like to use. For example, you might want to offer a few lines of summary on the talk’s main content before diving into your evaluation. Meanwhile, remember that your main purpose is to evaluate, not to inform. In terms of tone, think about how you can make your voice more convincing in your evaluation (i.e., based your evaluation on the examples from the talk instead of overgeneralized or biased judgment).
The focus of the review essay is your evaluation of the effectiveness of the TED talk, NOT your own agreement or disagreement with the topic of the TED talk.
Since this TED talk is an external source, you must use in-text citations and a “Works Cited” reference list. This is the MLA template for citing video content (of course you should change the content below when you are citing the TED talk)
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