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Ted Talk/Academic Lecture PromptModule 3 Main Assignment You are creating and presenting a Ted Talk or an Academic LectureYour Tasks:You have two options: Create either a Ted Talk about any current and relevant topic/argument that really interests you; OR create an Academic Lecture that involves a discussion in your major.In either case, this text should emanate from a sense of interest, passion, fluency, and authority, as well as an understanding of what a Ted Talk or Academic Lecture actually is and does. Note: a Ted Talk requires some expertise and passion . . . AND the topic should be timely, almost “trending.” And Academic Lecture is on a topic from your major studies that you want to research, write about and present.You must write-out the Ted Talk/Lecture in paragraph form AND create a detailed outline of this speech.You must record a ~ 10 minute video presentation of your TT or Lecture and post it to Canvas for the rest of the class to observe.You must write a three-page rhetorical analysis involving two of your peers’ video presentations in MLA format.You can personalize your project, be somewhat creative; after all, “genre becomes a way of navigating social activity. As such, it is dynamic, because the conditions of social activity are always in flux. [As a result], recurrence involves variation” (Berkenkotter and Huckin). Indeed, not all Ted Talks are the same, nor are all Academic Lectures the same. But they do fit into their respective genre.In other words, despite whatever personal touch you employ, the “text” you create must “do” whatever is typical of such a text (typifies that particular social action). Each text (Ted Talk or Academic Lecture) fits into a particular genre, and plays

a particular role in that discourse community. We are focusing on the specificity of genre and how this text (academic lecture or Ted Talk) acts as a kind of constituent of the culture to which it belongs.The assignments for this project are outlined below with possible points for each assignment. You have 4 different assignments that add-up to 100 points total.Presentation (Video) – 40 points (I want to clarify: this is a student-friendly assignment in that you are working on material that should really interest you. If this is not the case, and you’re not very interested in your Lecture or Ted Talk, re-think your Having said all of that, to get 72-80 combined points on the written and video portion of the assignment (Assignments 1-3), your text and presentation have to be very well conceived and executed with a nice dash of professionalism, smarts, insight and confidence (you have to create a credible Academic lecture or Ted Talk). We are constructing and presenting actual texts that play specific roles in a discourse community.Outline of Lecture or Ted Talk – 20 points. (Should look semi-organized/hierarchical).Written speech of Lecture or Ted Talk – 20 points (This is in paragraph form and you MUST INCLUDE A WORKS CITED)-Rhetorical Analysis of two other students’ videos – 20 points (3 pages MLA).————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-I chose the lecture and the subject (buying home) I will attach a file for the proposal(buying a home ), so outline(buying a home) and speech (buying a home ) SPECIAL IN SAN DIEGO should relate my major (finance ) in SDSU and related with covid-19. I’ll attach file 1-sample outline and2-sample speech,