A5-d: Remixing an essay for a presentation

A5-dRemix an essay for a presentation.

In a college course, you may be assigned to adapt an essay you’ve written for delivery to a listening audience. Student writer Sam Jacobs made important adjustments as he prepared a speaking script from his argument essay. Compare the first paragraph of Jacobs’s essay (A4-h) with the opening lines for his presentation below.

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