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I shall post videos, graphs, news stories, and other material. We shall use some of this material in class, and you may review the rest at your convenience. I encourage you to use the blog in these ways:

--To post questions or comments about the readings before we discuss them in class;
--To follow up on class discussions with additional comments or questions.
--To post relevant news items or videos.

There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Oral Presentations

We shall soon begin oral presentations in class. In each oral presentation, a student will speak for no more than five minutes, and then take questions for another five.

In your presentation, you should make a specific policy recommendation to the government official who has the most authority to deal with this issue.  See our previous discussion here.

Your recommendation may deal with any domestic issue at any level of American government. It should involve a subject on which there is real debate. It should be significant, yet manageable enough to analyze in a five-minute presentation. (That is, you will probably not be able to offer a comprehensive solution to the federal debt problem.)

It should also concern a topic that you care about, yet can discuss in a professional manner.

Use data to define the problem. You may present tables or graphs in a blog post, to which you may refer during your presentation.  You may also use PowerPoint.  See a guide here.  But beware of PowerPoint Poison.

Read these useful guidelines for oral presentations: http://www.auburn.edu/~burnsma/oralpres.html

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