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Dr. Craig Stensrud, Instructor, Department of English, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Dr. Moberley Luger, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures,Chair of the Co-ordinated Arts Program, University of British Columbia
A recent survey reports that 80% of students experience anxiety about oral presentations that impacts both “learning and well-being.” We believe this anxiety is rooted in the way that students think about scholarly speaking – and in the way speaking is commonly taught in universities. In this presentation, we will introduce an open-access website that we’ve build to change student and instructor thinking about oral presentations: The Precedents Archive for Scholarly Speaking (http://speaking.arts.ubc.ca), a site that teaches the key rhetorical “moves” for presenting scholarly research using video recordings of undergraduate student presentations. Our presentation will introduce students to a useful resource and invite instructors to reflect on how they can make their presentation assignments less intimidating and more equitable.