For the spoken
portion of your online portfolio (blog), you will create a spoken discussion of
your Cause and Effect topic. While this
can be similar to the introduction of your essay, this has some different
elements and serves a different purpose; thus, do not simply read your
introduction for this assignment.
The purpose of
recording an oral piece for your portfolio is to introduce yourself, your
topic, and your ideas to your audience.
Because this will be a well-rehearsed recording, your grammar should be
accurate as well as your pronunciation.
To be sure that you have used correct grammar, pronunciation and
intonation, you will write your oral portion first. We will practice reciting them in class and,
perhaps, on Google Voice. The final
recording will count as a test grade.
This should be
about 1 ½ to 2 mins and will be something we put into a video for your online
portfolio.
Here is what your oral piece should
include:
- Brief personal introduction
- What is your name?
- What is your topic/issue and why are you interested in it?
- Cause and Effect summary
- What are some of the causes and effects for your issue? You may consider the points you used for your essay.
- Solution?
- If you had the power to solve this
problem, what would be your solution? What should we do to fix this? This
portion is designed to get you ready for argumentation and should use the
words “must,” “need to” or “should”
i. EX: “To solve this problem I think we should….(explain
your idea and some support)”
- Conclusion
- “Thanks for listening” …. Maybe offer
the readers an action. For example, perhaps you encourage them to post a
response in your blog since this will end up there.
Hello, my name is
Vince and I am very pleased to introduce you to my portfolio. For the first
half of the quarter, I studied the effects of urban congestion. I am interested
in this because I have lived in cities my entire life, and everyday I see the
good sides and the bad sides to having so many people packed into such a small
space. I am also interested in this topic because with all the challenges we
face with urban congestion, it is important to know the effects and causes so
that we can find intelligent solutions to the problems we face.
While
investigating this topic, I came to the conclusion that there are two bad
effects to urban congestion and one good one. The bad effects may appear
obvious, but it is important to think about the causes to this as well. With
urban congestion there is increased crime and more pollution. The increased
crime comes not only because there are more people, and those people are closer
to each other, but because it puts different kind of people together, which can
often lead to problems. For example, because they don’t have as much as others,
poor people steal from and rob people who have more.
Increased pollution
comes about because there are obviously more people and more waste, but the
other more interesting effect is that because of congestion many people try to
find good solutions to managing pollution and waste.
Finally, the good
effect is connected to my previous idea: Congestion, while presenting
challenges, also urges people to work closely to solve common problems. Without
this congestion, maybe these problems go on unnoticed.
If I could solve
these problems I would urge local communities to create taskforces to help
monitor pollution and crime and find ways to stop it. Many communities do this
with crimewatch and recycling and the like. But if I ran a city, I would make
it a bit more mandatory or offer some more tax breaks or something. I really
believe that in order to solve common problems we have to work together, and I
think government should do more to have its citizens do just that.
Thank you very
much for taking the time to explore my ideas and my portfolio. Please leave a
comment and I would be happy to have a dialogue with you.
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