Assignment

Introduction

This topic is all about making presentations. Business professionals are often called upon to make presentations - to present information to their managers, colleagues, and customers. This topic will cover the basics of making a visual presentation based on the guidelines in Module 5.

In this course, you will design and prepare a slide presentation specifically designed to meet the needs and purposes of your intended audience. Developing a presentation is very similar to the type of business writing you have been doing all along in this course. Just as in your other assignments, you will need to:

• Identify your audience
• use a "you" attitude
• emphasis the positive
• develop reader benefits
• overcome objections
• do a little research
• and analyze data

Prepare a 6-10 slide presentation based on your Short Research Report topic with a Works Cited slide.

Criteria:

• Follow the guidelines in Module 5 for white space, parallelism, bullet-point phrases, headings, and presentation design
• Design your presentation to be readable by an audience at 30 feet
• Use an appropriate background
• Include at least one visual from your report: chart, table, graphic, picture, etc.
• Create a minimum of 8 slides: introductory, problem/topic, solutions, recommendations, and sources
• Use the headings from your report

Presentation Checklist

Your presentation will be graded on the following:

1. Grammar
2. Punctuation
3. Sentence Structure
4. Spelling
5. Development
6. Audience Awareness
7. PowerPoint Presentation assignment criteria
8. Critical Independent Thought
9. Flow/tone
10. MLA guidelines
11. Format/spacing
12. Mechanics
13. Redundancy
14. Wordiness
15. Active voice and action verbs.