Apathetic Listeners

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Apathetic Listeners

• Apathy is my closest advocate I dream in dull
  shades of black, white and gray.
  
  
• Yiming

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Creating and Delivering a Quality Product

• Nancy Marenick
• The Writing Centre
• 867-5221

http//people.stfx.ca/nmarenic/
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PowerPoint Presentations

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v8BP2HlNmRJ4

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Group Work
The way a team plays as a whole determines its
success. You may have the greatest bunch of
individual stars in the world, but if they don't
play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth
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Developing the Content
Introduction
Essay
Presentation
Body
Conclusion
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Delivering the Message

• Practice, Practice, Practice.
• Did I mention practice?

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Group Work - Tips

• Listen
• Watch
• Share
• Plan

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Paper vs. Presentation

• Intro
• Body
• Conclusion

• Tell what you are going to talk about
• Tell Them
• Tell them what you talked about

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Developing a Thesis Statement

• Make a statement

__________________________________________________
_______ BECAUSE 1)__________
_________________

2)___________________________

3)___________________________
Defend your statement
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Cultural balance
Social balance
Work balance
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Introduction

• General to specific
• Clear, concise points
• Thesis statement
• Why should the reader care?

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Essential Components
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Powerful Presentations

• Use simple, descriptive words.
• Use cue cards with major points written in large
  letters script.

• There are many ways to describe the glass ceiling
  effect. They include ..
• The glass ceiling is described as ..
• Sociologists describe the glass ceiling as..

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Supporting Your Arguments

• Paraphrase carefully
• Always cite paraphrases

http//library.stfx.ca/help/plagiarism.php
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Conclusion

• What have you learned?
• Relevance to today?
• Implications of research?
• Project

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Presentations

• Even the grandest project depends on the success
  of the smallest components
• (New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 2002)

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YOU Are The Solution

• RECOGNIZE
• YOUR
• ABILITY

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Presentation Skills

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vUGZyG0Jchjofeature
  related
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v2vS6sjc1lQ0feature
  related
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vHOSADvJnrG8feature
  related

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APA Author - Date

• One recent study showed another link between the
  glass ceiling effect and race, which ..
  (Calliste, 2004).
• Calliste (2004) showed another link between the
  glass ceiling effect and race, which

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Two Authors

• Calliste and Smith (2006) discussed ....
• The ethical implications are (Calliste
  Smith, 2006).

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3,4,or 5 Authors First Citation

• Calliste, Jones, and Smith (2002) suggested
  that...
• They suggested that .. (Calliste, Jones,
  Smith, 2002).

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Subsequent Citations 3,4, or 5 authors

• The research showed that.(Calliste et al.,
  2002).
• Calliste et al. (2002) showed that.

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Six or More Authors

• Calliste et al. (2002) clarified the
• results by..
• They clarified their results by.
• (Calliste et al., 2002).

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Secondary Sources

• Calliste (as cited in Smith, 2002) described
  ..
• The researcher described the.. (Calliste, as
  cited in Smith, 2002).

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Reference Article with no DOI Assigned

• Sillick, T. J., Schutte, N. S. (2006).
  Emotional intelligence and self-esteem mediate
  between perceived early parental love and adult
  happiness.
• E-Journal of Applied Psychology, 2(2), 3848.
  Retrieved from http//ojs.lib.swin.
  edu.au/index.php/ejap/article/view/ 7/1/100

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Reference Article with DOI Assigned

• Stultz, J. (2006). Integrating exposure therapy
  and analytic therapy in trauma treatment.
  American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(4),
  482488. doi10.1037/0002-9432.76.4.482

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Proofread Your Work

• Answered questions?
• Ideas are logical, consistent, clear, and
  concise?
• Good transitions
• Paraphrases properly cited?
• Grammar
• Punctuation

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• Come and see us at any stage in your work.

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