Outlines Your outline should have four parts: Summary (and, if necessary, description of channel) Comments Personal Narrative Evaluation

Outlines Always keep in mind your research question. Material in your essay should be relevant to recommending or not recommending the video to a particular audience. Your essay should move from an objective description of the video to your own judgement. Your own judgement should not appear until the evaluation.

Personal Narrative Think of the personal narrative as a description of an experiment and its results. The personal narrative should tell about how you tried to use the method presented in the video to do what the video claims to teach.

Personal Narrative The personal narrative should be in chronological order. At the beginning of the personal narrative you should describe how you became interested in your topic and in using the video.

Personal Narrative Because a summary of the video appears before the personal narrative, you can move quickly in your outline through steps that you followed exactly from the video.

Personal Narrative Your personal narrative should emphasize the following points, if applicable: Points in the process when you did not follow the video’s process. These points might involve substitutions of materials, ingredients, or equipment. Points in the process when you had to fill in the blanks, so to speak, in the video’s description of the process. A comparison of your results and the video’s results.

Personal Narrative The personal narrative should retell events and your verbs should be in past tenses. Your opinion in the present should not appear in the personal narrative. If you formed opinions during the time of the narrative the opinions might be relevant as long as they are put into the past.

Evaluation Your evaluation should be drawn from comments and from your own experience. In other words, you should draw conclusions from data. You should have a clear idea about the criteria (the rubric) that you are using to judge the video.

Evaluation Your evaluation should indicate how someone who is interested in the video should use the video. Your evaluation should give suggestions to a future videomaker for improving the video (objections) and/or identify audiences that would find the video the most useful and audiences who should try to find other videos or resources (limitations).

Quick Rubric Outline, not a draft Sequence of paragraphs visible Summary is not a set of instructions Summary covers the whole video Comments part of the outline includes people who have tried to use the video and questions Important comments copied into the comments part of the outline Personal narrative emphasizes differences in processes and compares results Evaluation accounts for questions and criticisms