- Time Required
- 8–10 hours, including reading time
Welcome to Week Eight of the course. This week we continue work on your oral presentation. You should spend time jotting out what you plan to say and beginning to think about your slides.
Holidays & Events This Week
Sukkot is observed this week, from Sunday the 9th through Sunday the 16th. If you observe Sukkot and need me to adjust your due dates, send me a message in Canvas. I am happy to do so. Just let me know.
Objectives for this Module
After completing this week’s activities, you address the following course objectives:
- Analyze the rhetorical situation and determine the appropriate audience or users of written communication, considering the needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 1]
- Use conventions of various workplace genres, such as proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, and slide decks, with understanding of how the genre conventions can be used as heuristics and as principles of arrangement. [CLO 4]
- Collaborate with classmates in planning, researching, writing, revising, and presenting information. [CLO 5]
Activities to Complete
Due Dates
- Friday, October 14: Suggested due date for the week’s work
- Grace Period:
- Ends at 11:59 PM on Wednesday, October 19 for your Try-Its and Check-in Survey.
- Ends at 11:59 PM on Friday, December 2 for the rest of the week’s work.
📚 To Read This Week
Read any materials that you did not get to last week:
- Markel & Selber, Chapter 20, “Making Oral Presentations”
- Markel & Selber, Chapter 12, “Creating Graphics”
- What Is a Pitch?
- The Elevator Pitch (video, 3m 32s)
- Designing a Presentation (Video Assignment, 56m)
- Technical Help for Making Videos
📝 To Write This Week
- Continue work on your Pitch Assignment, using the these resources:
- Try out strategies from the course by submitting these activities:
💬 To Discuss This Week
- Check in with your Accountability Group, according to the agreement that you have made. Use whatever tool your group has agreed to.
- Post any questions you have in the General Q&A Discussion Board in Canvas. If you have a private question, send me an email at tengrrl@vt.edu.
📓 To Check-In This Week
- Fill out the Week 8 Check-In Survey to let me know how you are doing in the course.
Photo credit: 2018.05 Low Carb and Low Carbon Presentation Slides 412 by Ted Eytan on Flickr, used under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 license.