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Izzy Watson<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Instructor’s Introduction<\/h4>\n

TED speakers are meant to deliver their talks on a spotlit stage in front of a rapturous crowd. But with our WR 415: Public Writing<\/em> course meeting entirely over Zoom, we had to make the same choice that TED conferences did in Spring 2021: assign prerecorded talks instead of live ones, asking our student speakers to passionately share their ideas with a laptop camera. It wasn\u2019t easy.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Izzy Watson\u2019s talk on the halo effect impressively transcends the limits of the medium. Partly, it’s the way that she mixes the anecdotal with the empirical, placing her pandemic experience in conversation with scholarly research. But it’s also the way that her script and delivery reach through the screen, nudging us to empathize with her experience and to question ourselves and the choices we\u2019ve made. Plus, Izzy is very funny\u2014and that\u2019s especially hard to be without an audience to laugh with.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marisa Milanese<\/span><\/h6>\n
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How the Halo Effect Reinforces Body Image Standards<\/h3>\n
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