Friday, April 15, 2016

Week 10 Blog

Hello once again to my interested fans and readers. This week saw me manage to complete and upload the final version of my paper to the College Board, thus completing a major chapter in my work for this project. It also saw me begin to greatly intensify the work that I had been putting into completing both the script for my presentation and the actual presentation itself. The completion of my presentation this week meant it would be a busy week of studying the script to achieve that goal. I also began to specifically look back at the opening slides of my presentation to ensure that they matched changes that I made to my final paper, and that these slides were refined enough to keep the audience interested. With the deadline for my presentation fast approaching, it has been a busy week for my project.
The first step that I took this week was to sit down and comprehensively read through my completed paper. I looked for any and all personally identifying information that I could, checking for my name, the name of my teachers and consultants, and for any information on the school itself. I also used this opportunity to do a final run-through of my paper for any grammar or syntax mistakes, as these would greatly detract from the credibility of the paper and the research that I had spent so much time trying to complete. To finish the paper off, I added in sub-headings to each of the major sections that it was composed of to ensure that the readers were in no way confused or unsure of the paper’s organization. With all this completed, I uploaded the paper to the College Board website and began my full-focus work on the presentation.
I first focused on the actual script for the presentation, looking to see if what I would be saying to the audience actually matched up with the slides I had created and the flow of the paper itself. After making a few edits to it, I moved towards examining how well my initial slides matched up to the now final paper and I found that I had to make a number of changes based on the edits that I had made earlier to my literature review and other parts of my paper. Considering that my paper’s organization and flow had changed a fair amount by the time the final was complete, I went back and reorganized the presentation to better match this flow, removing unnecessary information and focusing on making each slide representative of its subject material in the paper. Also, I put more focus on reducing the number of words on each of my slides, as I realized that they were becoming fairly verbose and I was relying too much on the presentation to convey my points instead of my own speaking to explain the research to the audience.
This week saw me end a major chapter in my work for this project, and it saw me take on a different aspect with a wholly new focus and determination. My coming time will only be spent further improving and building off my current presentation.
Regards,

Lazar Vukcevic 

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