Instruction ((Please read carefully and the files name).
1. Only do the critique 1000 words+700 words reflective writing on the tasks on my own presentation.
2. Read the 4 presentation slides/ Scripts carefully and the format given at the end and also the video to know how to write the critique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SntBj0FIApw
3. 2B and 2C are in the same session which focus on Multinational Corporations in China, 5B and 5D focus on China’s international trade and FDI challenges. Please be aware.
4. My presentation focus on China’s foreign trade and the script I upload is for the part I am responsible (To prepare the 700 words reflective essay writing).
Students (individually) are expected to prepare a seminar critique of four presentations with two being in one session and the other two being in another session that your are not presenting in. It will consist of two parts. The first part will be to evaluate the presentation on a rubric that consists of: content, organization, presentation skills, analysis, synthesis and originality along with an overall score. Keep in mind “synthesis” is very important.
The second part is to provide a paragraph or two with some constructive, but critical comments on what you liked about the presentation, what could have been done better and so forth. The objective here is for the student to develop skills in regard to being able to critique one’s peers and properly present them in a report format.
In addition, you need to write a reflective essay on the experience itself. See third bullet point below.
Length: 2,500 words +/- 10%
Weight: 25% of your overall grade
The document should be written with acceptable English in terms of grammar and proper composition. Please double check for any possible spelling mistakes or typographical errors.
Formatting is a very important aspect of this assignment! It will be heavily weighted in my assessment rubric. Think of the assignment as if your new employer asked you to attend these presentations and write a follow up a follow up report to be reviewed by management.
· Your paper should have a proper introduction of what took place and what follows.
· It should also contain a conclusion.
· The reflective essay component should be geared towards your personal reflection on the experiences overall (task, presentation, etc) and contain elements of reflective writing. Please revisit the reflective writing videos posted on the course Moodle.
· The workshop is also something that you can reflect on as well.
· There is no need to be comprehensive and cover everything with the exception of the critiques (roughly 1,000 word). Once you do the critiques, you can focus on the inquiry-based learning process overall from the moment you formed your group up to your presentation, other presentations and the workshop as well.
· You reflection afterwards should be on these experiences.
Your comments should have some substance. “Student A was very nervous and they should have rehearsed their presentation” is NOT a comment with substance.
Examples of some individual critiques from the past (Read the format carefully).
Adequate critique (could be a little more focused in terms of substance)
Presenter: Jane Doe
Topic: The Transformation of China’s Rural Enterprises
Content: 10 Depth: 9 Criticality: 8 Clarity: 3 Organization: 3 Overall Score: 6.6
Jane’s presentation was interesting but lacked some logical flow which made it hard to follow. There were too many long quotes. For example, her reading long textbook definitions of TVEs was perhaps unnecessary, I think most of the class has at least some familiarity—know your audience. The table of TVE growth was good, but it would have helped to highlight the important numbers (the inverse relationship between total TVEs and private enterprises). The dialectical methodology should have been described earlier. As the presentation began it to appeared to be about TVEs; but instead it switched to rural migrant returnee private industrialization. This duality of the topic should be clear in the title. It took me a while to understand the overall aim of the study, but the idea is an excellent example of restructuring in China’s economy.
Outstanding critique (in terms of content, but it is a way too long! It should be more succinct (presently 445 words). Your comments should be a brief paragraph and your critiques overall should be less than 1000 words.
For my last critique, I would like to assess Jane and John Doe’s presentation on Chinese private investment in Africa. Their topic was clearly defined as cross-national investment by China’s private enterprises in African countries. Though many criticize the study of Sino-African economic ties for failing to recognize the country of China and continent of Africa as incomparable in terms of scale and viewing African countries as a homogenous whole, I do not think that the pair deserve to get any marks deducted for this reason. Where bilateral investment is concerned, African countries do share many similar economic traits resource-wise and labor-wise, and their trade and investment relations with China do exhibit collective patterns. In addition, the pair’s data representation in the forms of graphs and tables was adequately executed, and their two case studies of Huajian Group and Transsion Group were also individually representative of labor-intensive and higher value-added sectors. Their elaboration on Transsion’s localized micro-innovations was especially informative and intriguing. Therefore, I give their presentation full marks for content.
Though they did not refer to a conceptual framework explicitly, I was able to infer from their presentation that they followed a resource-driven investment and market-driven investment dichotomy. Moreover, they perceptively identified the problem with data incongruency between official Chinese and independent third-party figures on Chinese private investment in Africa, suggesting that they exercised higher-order thinking when making sense of collected data and information. They also discussed the impacts of Chinese private investment in African countries on both investing and receiving parties. Despite repeating the same omission of the social dimension as many other classmates did, their presentation still gets full marks for criticality from me. Concerning depth, I believe that they did a good job explaining the relationship between China’s prior state-led investment in Africa and present-day private investment in the continent by articulating that the former laid the foundation for the latter by providing the essential infrastructure to facilitate the flows of capital and goods. Nevertheless, I feel that investment ties between China and Africa can be further explicated through a shifting dominance of realist practices to neoliberalist ones as crossnational interactions are carried out mainly by private investors nowadays instead of governments. I thus give their presentation 19 marks for depth. Their presentation was very well structured, and I give it full marks for organization. Lastly, their topic was of much novelty because contrary to popular belief that state-owned enterprises constitute the main actors in Sino-African investing activities, private investment in reality accounts for a larger share of total Chinese investment in African countries. Hence, I give their presentation full marks for originality, making 99 marks their final score from me.
