Chapter 19 deals with how to format documents and presentations. There are examples for academic essays, multimodal essays, articles, websites, oral presentations, multimedia presentations, and posters. Each section considers the purpose of your project, and how the aspects of that format can best work for you. For example, if using sound or many visuals is really important to voicing your argument, a multimodal essay or website might be best. The next thing to consider is the audience's expectations. Reader's of academic essays usually want wide margins and double spacing, whereas articles are expected to be written in columns with justified alignment. The Bedford Researcher also gives annotated examples of each format at the end of it's section. The only section done differently is the oral presentations section. This is much longer and has more advice, particularly for narrowing your topic and creating a speaker's outline and notes.
We are writing our papers in the form of academic essays, so much of chapter 19 does not apply to our class. However, it is still interesting to see information presented in different ways! I have a presentation for my biology class as well, so I appreciated the part on multimedia presentations. The main things we should be concerned about for this class are using formats to best present our information and to meet the reader's expectations.
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