英語表現演習4 (土): Fall semester final presentation assignment・期末発表

Hello!

  

Here is our fall semester final presentation assignment.  

Topics & task

Here are your choice of topics. They're based on what we've done so far in class from the textbook since the mid-term (中間). You can choose one (1) of these: 

     •    Genetic modification in food and plants or traits in humans

     •    Ethical and legal issues of DNA application

     •    Genetic facts, traits, and behaviors of certain animals  

     •    Medical possibilities and/or ethical issues in cloning

Guidelines

1. Prepare rough drafts of a summary (要約) and a basic outline (あらすじ), following the guidelines from the handouts I will give you about outlining, about the topic you want to present on. The rough summary and outline will be due next week (来週).

2. On the presentation day, you will hand in final drafts of both the summary and the outline about your presentation topic.

NEW - Some starting resources
Instead of a separate supporting post, I have decided to include some links to TED Talks here as some starting sources of information and research. 

You should do your own research, so please search around for more resources of your own - TED Talks you have searched out on your own, YouTube videos, Japanese or English websites on biological science or biotechnology, and such. But these links could help you get started on your research.

Each one of these talks come with Japanese subtitles (字幕) and both English and Japanese transcripts of the talks if you need them. 

Important note: 
Do not copy anything word-for-word from the transcripts! You can point to things a speaker says in a talk, but please do not plagiarize (盗作して) any of the content. 

Genetic modification in food and plants or traits in humans:

Nina Tandon – Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine? 
Click on this link here for this TED Talk.

Dean Ornish – Your genes are not your fate 
Click on this link here.

Ethical and legal issues of DNA research:

Ellen Jorgensen – What you need to know about CRISPR 
Click on this link here.    

Keolu Fox – Why genetic research must be more diverse 
Click on this link here.

Genetic facts, traits, and behaviors of certain animals:

Tony Buffington – Why do cats act so weird?
Click on this link here. 

Prosanta Chakrabarty – Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish 
Click on this link here.

Medical possibilities and/or ethical issues in cloning:

Richard Resnick – Welcome to the genomic revolution 
Click on this link here. 

A note about this last link: It is not directly about cloning, but the possibilities Resnick discusses in his talk may have an impact on cloning research.

NEW - Presentation tips and hints

Here is a short and funny, but important video on good and bad presentation tips and hints. Watch this one! 


Deadline (締め切り) 

We will do the presentations on January 19th, 2019 (1/19/2019), so you have over one (1) month to prepare these. 

Special note:

In your speaking and writing, use some of the vocabulary that you have seen and learned from the textbook, though you are not limited to only vocabulary from those units. 

But – you cannot use your written composition as a script for your presentation!

Good luck! I look forward to seeing, and reading about, your choices of topics. 

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