Show What You Know is an assignment designed for th e opening weeks of Rhetoric. It serves as a low-stakes assignment that helps students practice and gain confidence speaking in public while introducing them to critical research skills and improving information literacy. In other words it helps students think about how they find info rmation, where they find it, and what they should be looking for. It also serves as an alternative to the kinds of ice -breakers that students and instructors find cheesy or irrelevant. The assig nment asks students to teach their classmates something they know how to do well or give a demons tration of a skill they think classmates would want to learn.
