Briefly highlight what is unsettled or uncertain about your topic to help your audience understand the core ‘issue’, problem, or question you are exploring.

SOCSCI – Presentation Storyboard – Mini-Assignment

Introduce your research topic as if sharing it for the first time with a brand new audience, consider providing a bit of background and contextual information in order to help your audience understand your topic.

Briefly highlight what is unsettled or uncertain about your topic to help your audience understand the core ‘issue’, problem, or question you are exploring.
Relate Key Evidence
Briefly refer to, summarize, and briefly comment on some of the evidence and scholarly argumentation you have found most compelling so far in your research. For help on using signal phrases, templates and other writing-strategy ‘moves’ that can help you critically engage with your research sources, you may find it helpful to review some of our recent material.

Critically assess slide design, and develop a twenty-slide presentation storyboard on your topic.

Articulating Your Ideas

Connect
Take a look at the video linked below, in which undergraduate students are unknowingly subjected to one of the worst academic presentations of their lives. Fortunately, the presenter was a fictitious and exaggerated caricature of real instructors. Unfortunately, many of those habits are quite common in our contemporary classrooms and workplaces!
The World’s Worst Research Presentation
Content
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, you should be able to:
Organize your ideas, evidence, and arguments so far,
Critically assess slide design, and
Develop a twenty-slide presentation storyboard on your topic.

Which of Obhi’s insights in this chapter made the biggest impression on you? Are any tips most practically relevant for you at this stage of your research project?

SOCSCI – Practice: Brief Notes on Obhi

Instructions
Read the Obhi reading  available on Library eReserves.
Compose a brief paragraph answering this question: Which of Obhi’s insights in this chapter made the biggest impression on you? Are any tips most practically relevant for you at this stage of your research project?
As always, consider summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting. Full citations are not necessary in this context, but putting page numbers in brackets is appropriate for quotations and specific points.

What does the material you reviewed suggest about the American education system? What are some major problems with the American education system?

Education and Religion

Education and Social Class in the United States
OBJECTIVE
Analyze problems in United States education and provide recommendations and strategies for improvement.

DISCUSSION OVERVIEW
This discussion forum explores the current trends in education and the current problems observed in the U.S. education system.

DELIVERABLES
Your participation in the discussion forum, including:

Responses to the initial questions
Responses to at least two other students’ posts
What does the material you reviewed suggest about the American education system?
What are some major problems with the American education system?

Why does religion function differently in a European society than it does in American society?

Education and Religion 2

Religion in Europe and America
Discuss the different types of religious groups in the world
ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
This reaction and response assignment explores differences in religion between European society and American society.

DELIVERABLES
A one-page review and evaluation of the differences in religion between European and American societies

Step 1 Access and listen to the video.

Religion in European Society

Write a response about your reaction to the article, including your answer to the following question.
Why does religion function differently in a European society than it does in American society?

Critically analyse your chosen topic, including by drawing on one or more of the module themes of power, discourse and resistance use at least five sources that you have independently found.

A critical analysis of the relationship of livestock farming to crime, harm and the state

Your essay should be a coherent whole, develop a logical argument and be fully and correctly referenced. In addition, it should:
Critically analyse your chosen topic, including by drawing on one or more of the module themes of power, discourse and resistance use at least five sources that you have independently found:
At least three and a maximum of four of your references must be peer-reviewed journal articles.
At least one and a maximum of two of your references must be sources of the following type(s): a book; a chapter from an edited book; grey literature.
use chapter 4 as well