Student presentations were excellent in my opinion. I liked a lot of the visuals in the power-points. Everyone seemed to have great knowledge of what they wanted to do or where they were going on their presentations. However, some students did not have a very clear thesis on their presentation and our professor said you need to make sure our thesis were clear because that is what your defending or going against as known as your claim. Some students also didn't have clear central ideas and had to be told that you got have great central ideas because it is a five page paper were writing. My topic in my presentation was Youth Sports. In my presentation, I felt it was good, but I have to make sure my central ideas are clear, so I can even gather up the information to support my claim. In order to improve my presentation I will go back and make sure that my central ideas are clear and good enough to support my claim.
The Thesis statement of the essay “College Is a Waste of Time” by Dale Stephens is the sentence College is expensive in paragraph 4. The author supported his thesis with evidence in the same paragraph. The evidence he used in that same paragraph was stating that the College Board Policy Center found that the cost of college university tuition is about 3.6 times higher than it was 30 years ago. In Paragraph 5, the author stated that are alternatives to college and people shouldn’t depend on college and he is starting a social movement called “UnCollege”. The refutation the author used was stating that a major function of college is that it is a way potential employers that one is qualified to work; supporting that evidence like Employers are recruiting off social media and work sites. Finally, the concluding statement the author stated was “We who take our education outside and beyond the classroom understand how actions build a better world. We will change the world regardless of the l...
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