Summarize and analyze the personal essay Your objective.pdf
1. Summarize and analyze the personal essay below. Your objective here...
Summarize and analyze the personal essay below. Your objective here is to provide a
summary of the essay and its main themes. You may add biographical information about
the author, as long as the information helps us to understand the essay, and you should
clearly cite any outside sources that you use. If you do use outside sources, make sure that
you orally cite your source when you are speaking about that material. If you use written
material from an outside source on your slide, make sure that you put quotation marks
around material that is word-for-word and parenthetically cite the
There should be:
1. an introduction (where you introduce your essay and preview the main subtopics of your
presentation—tell us what you are going to talk about and in what order)
2. a body (in which you explain the story and your presentation's main points—this will
take several slides and several minutes). Again, if you use any outside sources, they should
be clearly cited orally and on the slides during your presentation. If you are citing the story,
that should also be clear, both visually and orally.
3. and a conclusion (where you summarize your presentation's main points, and where you
can again briefly offer your own thoughts and analysis of the story—this can usually be
done with one slide and in one minute). Your last slide should include full bibliographic
information