- 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
- Women’s History Month lasts for the entire month of March.
- Pi Day is Tuesday, March 14th.
- Saint Patrick's Day is Friday, the 17th.
If you observe these holidays and need me to adjust your due dates, send me a message in Canvas.
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
- All work is due by 11:59 PM on Friday, March 17.
- Grace Period:
- Ends at 11:59 PM on Wednesday, March 22 for your Check-in Survey.
- Ends at 11:59 PM on Friday, April 28 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
- Optional ways to discuss class issues:
- Post public questions in the General Q&A Discussion in Canvas if it can be shared with the class.
- If you have a private question, send me a message with the Canvas Inbox.
- Ask a question or make a suggestion anonymously with the Anonymous Questions & Suggestions form.
- Post public questions in the General Q&A Discussion in Canvas if it can be shared with the class.
📓 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.