Part 1 of Week Five Instructions: Designing Your Pitch

Time Required
7–8 hours, including reading time

Dr. Kalikolani Correa stands at a raised table with a laptop, giving a presentation in the ‘Onipa‘a Speaker Series Part 1 of the module for this week explores the ways that design influences the effectiveness of oral presentations and completes the work of creating your Pitch Presentation.

You must complete both Part 1 and Part 2 this week. Part 2 will open when you successfully complete the Final Pitch Presentation Checklist.

Optional Course Advice Pages & Videos

Remember to check the “Canvas Announcements & Course Advice” on the Course Home. This week I will share tips on document design, use of images to demonstrate your points, and common PowerPoint errors.

The posts show up in the Twitter feed for @HokieTengrrl Links to an external site., which you will find on the course home in Canvas under the heading. 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]
Identify and apply the principles of effective style in the composing of usable, reader-centered written communications.[CLO 7]

Activities for this Week

Available Points: 60

Due Dates:

- Friday, February 19 at 11:59 PM: All activities due.
- Monday, February 22 at 11:59 PM: Grace period ends for all work.

📚 To Read This Week

Markel & Selber, Ch.9: “Emphasizing Important Information”
Markel & Selber, Ch.11: “Designing Print and Online Documents”
Recommendation Topic Examples (webpage)
Pitch Presentation Overview (webpage), review as needed
CRAP Design Principles (webpage), review as needed

📝 To Write This Week

Compare the examples on the Recommendation Topic Examples page with the topic you have chosen for your project. Use the advice there to sharpen to focus of your topic, as appropriate.
Finish work on your Pitch Presentation video.
Complete the Final Pitch Presentation Checklist. You have an unlimited number of times to earn full credit on the checklist.
Remember to submit your Pitch Presentation in Part 2 of the Week Five module, once you earn full credit on the Checklist. You cannot reach the Part 2 of Week Five module until you earn full credit on the Checklist.

💬 To Discuss This Week

Follow the instructions in the What Are Your Worries? 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.

📓 To Track This Week

Track and reflect on the work you have done for the week in your Work Log for the Week of 02/15, reviewing the Weekly Work Log Guidelines if needed.
Complete the Week of 02/15 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:‘Onipa‘a Speaker Series: Dr. Kalikolani Correa by University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu on Flickr Links to an external site., used under a CC-BY-SA license.