COMM 110M: Comm & Community Small Group (Partner) Comm Strategy Virtual Synchronous Presentation 15 points (15 % of course grade) Presentations begin Thurs., March 3 and conclude Thurs., March 10 Final Small Group (Partner) Paper 25 points (25% of course grade) Due: Tues., March 15 @ 10:59 a.m. PST via Canvas These are the instructions for your Small Group (Partner) Comm Strategy Virtual Synchronous Presentation and Final Small Group (Partner) Paper. Both assignments account for 50% of the course grade, so read the instructions closely. Your course grade is not contingent on whether the communication strategy(ies) is/are real and/or actualized. Presentation Guidelines • • • • • • • • Time frame: no more than 10 minutes total, which includes 2 minutes available for a brief Q&A, comments, or feedback that might help inform the analysis in the final paper. Include at least 1 visual to represent the communication strategy. Begin with a summary of the community, focusing on any project goals or objectives and reasoning about why this community was chosen. Discuss how the community’s needs were established and how these needs should be addressed. Share what the community felt was realistic and/or unfeasible or unrealistic. Describe and/or show the communication strategy conceptualized and/or executed to help the community of interest meet its needs, receive care, and/or benefit from the strategy. Present an analysis or discussion of the strategy(ies) that could be or were put into practice. Thinking long term, imagine and address possible or actual impact(s) that the communication strategy(ies) has/have in helping the community meet its communication needs. Is there evidence to support these potential or actual conclusions? Lastly, address what the pair/group would or will do differently with more opportunities, time, and/or resources available. 1 Paper Guidelines • • • • • • • • • This paper structurally should contain multiple paragraphs. This paper should be at least 800 words and include an official title that creatively represents the connection between community and your communication strategy(ies). You may re-use content from your Midterm. Cite yourself and the year 2022. Protect yourself from self-plagiarism. Begin with a summary of the community. Address any critical historical, cultural, social, economic, environmental, etc. information that is specific to the chosen community and/or project, focusing on any project goals or objectives and reasoning about why this community was chosen. You can reiterate this part of the presentation if desired. Describe your positionality as participants, students, and/or student researchers. Make at least one theoretical connection to assigned course readings. Explain your motivation(s) for the project, how the community’s needs were established, and how these needs should be addressed. Provide an analysis of the communication strategy, drawing from any outside research or assigned course materials to justify points of significance. Significance can be theoretical or applied/practical/empirical/observable. Incorporate any final points for discussion or future exploration. Thinking Ahead • Questions about Presentations or the Final? Earn some community-building points by posting them to our Discussions page in Canvas first. You can email me, too at [email protected]. If I do not respond, the answer might be on Canvas. Good luck! 2 The purpose of this presentation is to reveal how the needs of LGBT people in China were exposed and what the community considers to be realistic and reasonable treatment. It goes against the popular belief that, LGBTQIA+ people do not have legal rights or privileges as heterosexual or cisgender people in China. According to Liang (2022), since 2001, homosexuality has been classified as a mental disease and is heavily suppressed. Same-sex couples cannot marry or be allowed to adopt in China when both LGBT and non-LGBT people have different legal rights. As time goes by, the Chinese are becoming more accepting where homophobic violence has been rare. The courts have given a few gay-friendly verdicts, and a new facility in Shanghai now serves transsexual children. Another example of the LGBT community in China is Beijing’s gay community. It provides a safe, welcoming atmosphere for Beijing’s LGBT+ community, through events and support. Nights at the progressive Destination or Funky (next to each other) are easy and fun. In China, the Beijing LGBT Center is a non-profit organization keen to promote the rights of China’s LGBT+ community. Few will accept that the State or its rules purposefully target homosexuality. Some say Xi Jinping’s increasingly conformist and conservative policies have harmed the LGBTQ community. Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong all have thriving LGBT communities, but public displays and pride festivals are rare in China since the government limits all forms of public protest. The purpose of this presentation is to reveal how the needs of LGBT people in China were exposed and what the community considers to be realistic and reasonable treatment. It goes against the popular belief that, LGBTQIA+ people do not have legal rights or privileges as heterosexual or cisgender people in China. According to Liang (2022), since 2001, homosexuality has been classified as a mental disease and is heavily suppressed. Same-sex couples cannot marry or be allowed to adopt in China when both LGBT and non-LGBT people have different legal rights. As time goes by, the Chinese are becoming more accepting where homophobic violence has been rare. The courts have given a few gayfriendly verdicts, and a new facility in Shanghai now serves transsexual children. Another example of the LGBT community in China is Beijing’s gay community. It provides a safe, welcoming atmosphere for Beijing’s LGBT+ community, through events and support. Nights at the progressive Destination or Funky (next to each other) are easy and fun. In China, the Beijing LGBT Center is a non-profit organization keen to promote the rights of China’s LGBT+ community. Few will accept that the State or its rules purposefully target homosexuality. Some say Xi Jinping’s increasingly conformist and conservative policies have harmed the LGBTQ community. Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong all have thriving LGBT communities, but public displays and pride festivals are rare in China since the government limits all forms of public protest. 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MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.