How my group organized our presentation

 My group decided to take on the topic Quotes and Paraphrasing. The group consisted of Yanjun Li and myself. At the beginning of the class when all the groups found each other, I originally had plagiarism picked as a topic. There were five students who wanted this topic and Li and myself felt it would be easier to split off and choose a different topic than plagiarism. Coordinating a multiple group effort would be difficult and reduce the amount of material to cover.
 Before decided deciding what topics to cover and researching them, we discussed how to present the material. Power Point was the clear winner. Being able to read the slide during the presentation would help make up for the lack of preparation. Moving on, we brainstormed major topics and how to correctly order them. The layout of our slides was pretty straight forward in that we would cover a topic and then show an example of the topic in action.
 After a title slide with the presentation name and our names, we moved straight into a slide with a dictionary definition of both quote and paraphrase. We decided on this kind of a slide because it is the foundation of the presentation that all the rest of the presentation would relate back to. The next slides were used to soften the exactness of the dictionary definitions. The way we did this was by showing the viewers when and where they would find the use of quotes and paraphrasing. This section of the Power Point was finished with an example of a quote and it's paraphrased counterpart.
 After we had introduced and defined our presentation's subjects, we moved onto finer details. The first we went into were about how to reformat a quote. We brought up two sub-points followed by an example of both. After bringing up rules about quotes we moved onto rules of paraphrasing on the next slide. Since our audience was students we finished with slide to help them avoid trouble, this case plagiarism. The plagiarism slide showed how to avoid plagiarism by correctly citing sources. The last slide was source cited page.
  Writing this post, I feel that I make the process sound a lot smoother than it actually went. The major problem going into the presentation is that we did not have knowledge on the topic that we would have had doing plagiarism. We did not do our pre-assignment on the topic meaning we had to understand the topic before we started preparing the Power Point for presentation. Unfortunately, I feel that we did not fully understand the topic before brainstorming about slide topics and organization of the slides. It would have helped us quite a lot if we had just stopped everything and spent ten to fifteen minutes to fully grasp the concept. This misunderstanding came out as we worked through the Power Point and saw previous slides that just weren't correct and had discontinuities.
 When researching the topic we tried to use credible sites and cross referencing. Since we were using a dictionary definition we felt that was a direct quote situation. We also used the LEO site that we found our topic at and used an OCL that I had been told to use when being consulted with an SCSU writing tutor.