I took a listen to Olivia's podcast, which lives here. Her podcast is titled "The RSS Podcast" or "The Rhetorical Strategies and Situations Podcast." (Or something like this, she didn't type it out anywhere to be seen) I performed a content recommendation for her podcast, focusing on the idea of expanding thoughts and including the importance of each point she makes.
I think my comment will help make her paper better because a few ideas seemed under-developed, and the podcast would be a bit more meaningful if she delved in just a little further. Also, the lack of explanation on why certain things are important leaves me as a listener wondering why I should care about any of it. I mean, I don't spend free time looking through pharmaceutical journals, so it's a little difficult for me to take interest. I think adding a little focus on why it's important or interesting throughout the podcast, while still keeping the focus on rhetoric, is a definite must.
I didn't incorporate anything from Student's Guide (I might have unintentionally, that would be cool), because I thought it would be more useful at this point in the process to use the grading rubric as a basis for my review. I think pointing out a major recurring point that could be improved (this is the lack of emphasis on importance of the subject) was a good move because the rubric says multiple times to include thoughts on why it matters and things. Getting close to the submission deadline, I think using something that very strictly defines and affects her grade was the way to go, and this was the most glaring issue I could see so that's what I did.
I am absolutely so impressed with how comfortable Olivia sounds on the mic, and how much control she has over her tone and voice. It doesn't sound like she's reading from a script, but it also doesn't sound like she's winging it and messing up. Podcasts are supposed to sound more like conversations than essays read aloud, and she absolutely nails this convention! If only I could be less awkward and pull that off a little more easily.
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