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<p align="left" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Politician or paramedic, teacher or technician, reporter or retailer – everyone has "ideas worth spreading". This simple concept is also the mission statement of the organization known as TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). TED originated in 1984 as an invitation-only conference for numerous and disparate people to network and share intercultural and interdisciplinary views. The group has expanded exponentially to become a non-profit organisation and now also operates on a website (http://www.ted.com/) that provides access under creative commons licensing to over 2,200 presentations and talks from the likes of household names including former President Bill Clinton to lesser known people such as Berkeley Unified School District lunch lady Ann Cooper. In this course, we will listen to various talks, and determine and discuss the argumentation and rhetorical strategies of each in addition to completing exercises designed to develop your language usage. </span></p> |
