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Portfolio Three

Presentations

Each individual or group will present their project orally during the last three days of class. If you wish, you may invite your contact person to attend this presentation. While we will keep these presentations relatively informal (you don't have to dress up), there is an expectation that you will be professional, prepared, and organized.

Audience
Two options:

• You may choose to present your project as if presenting to the client. The class will role-play that client if your contact person is not there.
• You may choose to present to the class directly. Your presentation will then be geared toward the needs and interests of a professional writing class rather than the client. In other words, what did you learn in this process about professional writing that might be useful to the entire class?

Time
The following explains the time requirements, based on the size of the group. These time limits will be enforced strictly.

• Individual: 8-10 minutes
• Group of 2: 10-12 minutes
• Group of 3: 12-15 minutes

If in a group, each person in the group must participate actively in the presentation. Order of presentations will be determined by random drawing on Thursday, April 19.

Multi-Media
Each presentation must include a visual element. This does not necessarily mean you have to use Powerpoint, although that is an option. A handout is fine, as is reference to a web site or other form of document. If you created a document (such as a brochure) for your client, the document itself would be an appropriate supplement to your talk.

Interaction
While not a required element, the most interesting presentations will be interactive, will invite the audience to do something or say something in the course of the presentation.

Criteria

• Audience participation: Attend and pay attention to all presentations. You will lose points on your own presentation if you are absent, walk out, or work on your own materials while another individual or group is presenting. You can earn extra points by asking a good question of the presenter (one question per presentation, raise your hand, wait to be called on by presenter).
• Multi-media: effective, relevant, and attractive visual/multi-media component.
• Organization: audience is able to follow the presentation and can identify the main points
• Preparedness: presenter has all necessary materials and appears to have practiced.
• Presentation qualities: speaking voice, gestures, eye contact, posture, etc.