[OT] The Homework Thread (OVER)
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MeepoTheMighty
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jollyninja said:
One time at a party, I was really really really drunk, and I was trying to explain something or other to other really really drunk people. Little did I know that some guy was wandering around with a video camera, and had been taping my drunken ramblings for the last minute or so. Sick of fumbling for the right words to say to explain whatever the hell I was talking about (I think it involved monkeys), I ripped off my shirt, jumped on the table, and yelled SAN DIMAS HIGHSCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!!
I really hope that tape isn't still floating around.
Storminator
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Your report has researcher syndrome. It is packed with lots of good info, but it doesn't go anywhere. Go back over it and ask yourself "what's my topic sentence?" Of everything I say here, this is the most important, and really needs to be addressed.
Pick some aspect of all that (manufacturing techniques, tricks, reporting, injuries, the culture of boarders, etc) and bend the speech around that one topic.
You might want to see if you can find a skateboarder to interview, to balance the research. At least look for some other styles of sources so your speech doesn't come out flat and one dimensional. Frex, there's a whole parlance that comes with boarding, and you barely touch on it. Judicious use of a few more street terms might punch up the speech a bit.
Finally, actually read that sucker out loud. I think it's a looooooong speech as written, and it'll feel like the Bataan death march giving it. Give the speech in your room and time yourself.
Hope some of that was helpful,
PS
Pick some aspect of all that (manufacturing techniques, tricks, reporting, injuries, the culture of boarders, etc) and bend the speech around that one topic.
You might want to see if you can find a skateboarder to interview, to balance the research. At least look for some other styles of sources so your speech doesn't come out flat and one dimensional. Frex, there's a whole parlance that comes with boarding, and you barely touch on it. Judicious use of a few more street terms might punch up the speech a bit.
Finally, actually read that sucker out loud. I think it's a looooooong speech as written, and it'll feel like the Bataan death march giving it. Give the speech in your room and time yourself.
Hope some of that was helpful,
PS
MeepoTheMighty
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I'm guessing that this assignment has already passed 
I'm sorry for rebumping a month-old thread. I was digging through the bowels of the boards looking for something else and forgot that I was back so far
I'm sorry for rebumping a month-old thread. I was digging through the bowels of the boards looking for something else and forgot that I was back so far
Storminator
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Heh! see what happens when you don't check dates?
Carry on, nothing to see here, nothing to see...
PS
Carry on, nothing to see here, nothing to see...
PS
As an avid skateboarder from back in the day, I sure wish that I had seen this topic when it was relevant. I could have given ya all sorts of good little tidbits. Recommended a movie or two, a couple of skate videos, and given you a ton of names to drop. Something more detailed than the internet history you dug up. Ahhh well. Tell us how your counterpart did.
Gaius
Gaius
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Zappo said:
Word.
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