Story Telling

Due: 2023-12-05 by 11:59pm

Weight: This assignment is worth 1% of your final grade.

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to learn some tips for effectively communicating the results of your analyses to others. We will look at strategies for giving effective presentations / speeches as well as best practices for designing slides.

Assessment: This assignment is graded using a check system:

  • ✔+ (110%): Responses shows phenomenal thought and engagement with the course content. I will not assign these often.
  • ✔ (100%): Responses are thoughtful, well-written, and show engagement with the course content. This is the expected level of performance.
  • ✔− (50%): Responses are hastily composed, too short, and/or only cursorily engages with the course content. This grade signals that you need to improve next time. I will hopefully not assign these often.

Notice that this is essentially a pass/fail system. I’m not grading your writing ability and I’m not counting the number of words you write - I’m looking for thoughtful engagement. One or two sentences is not enough. Write at least a paragraph and show me that you did the readings assigned.

1. Get Organized

Follow these instructions:

  1. Download and edit this template.
  2. Unzip the template folder. Make sure you actually unzip it! (in Windows, right-click it and use “extract all”)
  3. Open the .Rproj file to open RStudio.
  4. Inside RStudio, open the hw12.qmd file, take notes, and write some example code as you go through the readings / exercises below.

2. Video

Watch this video on how to start a speech:

3. Readings

We’ll be discussing good techniques for telling a story this week. These readings will be a good primer:

4. Reflect

For your final reflection, in addition to any thoughts that emerged when going through the above content, write about a talk or presentation you saw that you found particularly impactful. Was there anything memorable about it that made the presenter’s message stick? Do you remember how the speaker began or ended their talk?

5. Submit

To submit your assignment, follow these instructions:

  1. Render your .qmd file by either clicking the “Render” button in RStudio or running the command quarto::quarto_render("hw12.qmd") command.
  2. Open the rendered html file and make sure it looks good! Is all the formatting as you expected?
  3. Create a zip file of all the files in your R project folder for this assignment and submit it on the corresponding assignment submission on Blackboard.