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Michael Daniel Vincent Feranda

Lynn Raymond

URWT-1102

9 March 2015

Multimodal project Proposal: Evolution

Evolution has been and still is a scientific subject of great controversy. It has caused

people in history to be prosecuted for believing it, and a teacher was even sent to jail for teaching

such “forbidden knowledge.” We believe the main reason why evolution is so controversial is

because of how it directly conflicts with religious beliefs, and denies that humans have been put

on earth for a higher reason. We believe because of this, people have formed misconceptions

about evolution that are false. By conducting extensive research in the topic, we believe this

project will allow us to clear up misconceptions that some of our classmates may have about

evolution.

As far as the multimodal approach of the project goes, the visual, gestural, and linguistic

modes will be prevalent throughout the presentation. If we can fit a form of the aural mode in the

project then we shall, but we are not exactly sure how we could. The visual aspect of the project

will obviously be the power point we use. We also plan to include picture that will aid in

understanding concepts were addressing. The linguistic Approach will be our interaction with the

class. Speaking to them and expanding on the information on the power point presentation will

help to deliver the information. We also plan to answer any questions that our classmates may

have to our best abilities. The question and answer method will hopefully give them feedback on

anything they may be confused about; as for the gestural mode, we have a few examples that we

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can use that will also use to clarify on any confusions classmates may have. We are still not

exactly sure about how to incorporate and aural mode of presenting the information, so we may

not include it. We will continue brainstorm about what we could use for this mode, but for now it

does not seem like it will be included in our project.

We think that evolution is something that the people should care about because it is not

just about men turning to monkeys like most people believe it to be. There is also more to it and

we think that the subject of evolution deserves to be properly known just as valuable information

in the world should. Our goal is not to convert people into believing that evolution is how

everything came to be; we just want to clear up misconceptions that people may have had about

evolution so they can understand why it is accepted as a fact in the scientific community.

The division fo the work for the project is rather simple. We both plan to do some

research, report back to each other to discuss what we find, and compile our research into a

power point presentation. We will both be responsible for finding credible, informative sources,

and we both will be responsible for creating the power point together. We also will divide

presenting the information the same way.

We are not exactly sure about an exact timeline for the project, but we plan on starting

work as soon as possible. Our schedules are very different and conflict often, so we are still in

the process of arranging times to work on the project together. We will start researching the day

this proposal is turned in. that way we will have an early start on that portion. I can say that we

will finish the presentation early. That is what we have planned so far.