Week 04 Instructions: Pitching Your Ideas
- Time Required
- 7–8 hours, including reading time
This module explores the genre of oral presentations and begins the work of creating a Pitch Presentation, which will explain the project you plan to focus on for your Recommendation Report.
Optional Course Advice Pages & Videos
Remember to check the “Canvas Announcements & Course Advice” on the Course Home. This week I will share tips on some of the tools you can use for your Pitch, like how to use PowerPoint to make a video.
The posts show up in the Twitter feed for @HokieTengrrl Links to an external site., which you will find embedded on the course home. If you read them and watch the related videos, be sure to note the time in your Weekly Work Log.
Objectives for this Week
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]
- Apply principles of effective visual design for print and electronic presentation, including hierarchical, chronological, and spatial arrangements. [CLO 6]
Activities for this Week
Available Points:60
Due Dates:
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- Friday, February 12 at 11:59 PM: All activities due.
- Monday, February 15 at 11:59 PM: Grace period ends for all work.
📚 To Read This Week
- Markel & Selber, Ch. 21: “Making Oral Presentations”
- Pitch Presentation Overview (webpage)
- CRAP Design Principles (webpage)
📝 To Write This Week
- Begin work on your oral presentation by completing the Pitch Draft Assignment.
💬 To Discuss This Week
- Follow the instructions in the Pitch Draft Feedback Discussion to share what you have written with your group. As a group, work to ensure that every person in the group gets at least two responses.
- Participate in the CRAP Design Scavenger Hunt Discussion.
📓 To Track This Week
- Track and reflect on the work you have done for the week in your Work Log for the Week of 02/08, reviewing the Weekly Work Log Guidelines if needed.
- Complete the Week of 02/08 Self-Assessment to claim the points for the work you have done this week. You have an unlimited number of times to complete the self-assessment. Your points will be recorded automatically when you submit your quiz.
Image Credit: ING Business course 2011 day3: Pitches for the Banking Board by ING Netherlands on Flickr, used under a CC-BY-SA license.