A Good Example Outline for PowerPoint

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I cannot upload an example PowerPoint here, so I am putting the outline of it here. This was a PowerPoint some of my students did last year. It is good because it is not a SUMMARY. Please do not give me a summary in your paper or PowerPoint. I want to see how you can think.

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The Professor and Madman : The Making of the Oxford Dictionary
BY SIMON WINCHESTER

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History of Oxford Dictionary

—originally was a Philological Society project conceived in London by Richard Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall, who were dissatisfied with the current English dictionaries
—12 volumes in the first version
—70 years to complete
—First called the New English Dictionary but later changed to Oxford Dictionary

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History of Oxford Dictionary

—1st edition completed in 1928
—5 supplements to 1st edition
—2nd edition, half a century later, integrated everything into a 20 volume whole.

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James Murray

—Editor of Oxford English dictionary
—Former Schoolmaster and Bank Clerk
—Born February 1837
—Admires Minor
—Member of a philological society

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William Chester Minor


—Former Surgeon and Civil War Veteran.
—Sent to asylum for the criminally insane
—Insanity started during war
—Discharged from army
—Murdered George Merrett
—Tried for murder and found innocent due to insanity
—Enjoyed traveling

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Rhetoric


—Definitions: used to emphasize meanings of central themes of plot
—Flash Back: to give audience insight into past and factors influencing current events
—Allusions (Shakespeare, Voltair etc)
—Rhetorical Questions

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Themes

—Murder
—Insanity
—Life and Death
—Love of Words
—Psychology

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TONE AND SETTING


—Tone:
—Critical, Descriptive
—Use of Dialogue to emphasize important events
—Setting:
—London
—Macabre undertones (death, insanity, murder)

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STRUCTURE


—3rd person narrative
—Chapters open with dictionary definition
—“Part psychological study, part biography”


Be Creative! This is only an example. Explain the book through its elements, not plot.