COM 110 - 002

Peer Review

Reviewer: Jessica Dean
Speaker: Morgan Parks
Topic: Facebook should not be banned for college students.

    I believe Morgan's strength was that she used previews, reviews, and links to make her speech easy to follow. After her first main point, she reviewed what she had covered and went on to describe what she was going to talk about. She also restated her main ideas in her conclusion. Even though she used these organizational techniques, some parts of her speech did not flow very well. It seemed that sometimes she would get stuck and repeat the same thing she had just said. Other than that, I think her organization was very nice.
    Another positive of Morgan's speech was that her main ideas supported her thesis. The fact that college students are responsible for their own actions because they are mostly adults strongly shows that it is up to the students whether they have a Facebook. Her other main idea was that Facebook provided a way to keep in touch which showed why it is important to students.
    I didn't like the evidence Morgan used to support her main idea because it felt like all she did was highlight all of the negatives that can be associated with Facebook which worked against her thesis. Instead of talking about the issues of Facebook (ie: reputation-damaging pictures, stalkers), she might have talked about other ways that college students are treated like adults to prove that they are able to handle the responsibility of having a Facebook account.
    I thought Morgan's evidence for her second main point did a great job of showing why Facebook is important to college students. Her personal story about keeping in touch with her friend in Italy was a nice way to show how Facebook is important to her personally. She also included that it was easier for students to stay in touch because all you have to know is your friend's name; it makes it easier than having to find a piece of paper and exchange phone numbers or email addresses.
    Overall, I thought Morgan did a really good job with her speech. Her main ideas supported her thesis, and she used good organizational techniques to keep the audience focused on what she was talking about.

Posted at 10:00AM Sep 12, 2007 by DEAN, JESSICA in peer review  |  Comments[0]