Summary: Guidelines for your MLA Proposal Presentation Draft that are not included in the document.

1. Your talk should last 8-10 minutes, followed by 3-5 minutes for questions, comments, and answers.

2. It is good to practice your presentation several times on Zoom, listen to it, and try to make adjustments to your talk that you think will work well. 

3. There are usually 16 to 20 slides.

4. Your Works Cited page is single-spaced with MLA formatting. 

5. The MLA in-text citation guide is provided, and the parenthetical in-text citations look like this (Miller “Fairtrade Possibilities” sec. par. 2) or Sakamoto (45). You can also do narrative in-text citations such as Suzuki (par. 3) or Tanaka (“Ecotourism Explained” sec. par. 1) suggested that…

6. Here are three free websites where you can download free and beautiful images and pictures:

Pixabay

Creative Commons

Irasutoya

Homework due via email attachment by 1 p.m. before class. Prepare a presentation draft and one Write & Improve essay checked three times.

1. Do your best to prepare a draft for your presentation slideshow. The presentation guidelines’ Word document is helpful to follow while adding content and your script in notes in PowerPoint, based on synthesizing your notes. 

If you have not written all 5 Write & Improve essays and resubmitted them at least three times, please complete them before Workshop_14 so I can check them. You can choose the essays and the time of writing freely, and you can try to improve your score by accepting the suggestions in the program.

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