Finalising your drafts

Here is an overview of the feedback that I have been providing to everyone during the verbal conferencing sessions:

* PROOF-READ! Please read over your work very carefully to ensure that you have a speech that is clearly articulated. Be very aware of your expression, sentence construction, word choice, etc. It is incredibly useful to have someone read your speech aloud to you - this way you can hear the mistakes that you may have made.

* Time your speech. If you have time available, think about where you can enhance your main points. You need to work on developing depth in your discussion. This may mean that you need to trim certain elements of your speech to ensure that you can provide greater detail and depth in other areas.

* Look back to the task sheet. Consider the questions that you have selected to answer; have you answered them the best you possibly can? If not, consider what you might change or add.

* Still looking at the task sheet. Look carefully at the criteria sheet now that you have written your speech. Does your speech meet the criteria directly?

* Have you addressed the themes/messages element of the task. Your whole speech should be focusing on how you have take the most important (to you) themes or messages from the book and developed them into a film. How have you done this and what reaction were you hoping to get from audiences - how do you want them to feel?

* Once you have refined your speech, take the time to practise it. Practise in front of an audience if possible and have them give you feedback on both your content and the way you are delivering your presentation.

Good luck and I look forward to hearing your speeches next week!