Your Assignment
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Identify one significant communications challenge you’ve observed or experienced in your work, academic, personal, or professional life. (This could be a one-on-one communication challenge or a challenge facing a group.)
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In a presentation you make directly to an outside audience who can help to overcome this challenge:
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Use key concepts and terms from our study of communications this semester to identify and define the challenge and possible sources and causes of this challenge.
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Use key concepts and strategies we’ve learned this semester to help overcome this challenge and improve communication, giving your audience (and you, if applicable) actionable steps that are connected with communications theory and practice.
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Provide plenty of concrete, specific examples from your observations and experience to help your audience to understand the causes of the challenge, your proposed strategies, and to be persuaded those strategies will work.
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Who is your intended audience for this presentation?
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What is the communications challenge you want to explore in your presentation? What are some of the key principles or concepts from the class that will help you to define and establish this challenge?
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What are some of the strategies you plan to suggest to help overcome these challenges? How do they connect with what we’ve studied this semester?
- How do you plan to draw on your experiences and observations to make a persuasive presentation?
- What is most important for you to do in your presentation as you work to persuade this specific audience to take the actions you suggest?
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At this point, do you think you will use a slideshow, actors, or other visuals? How?
- (Optional) What questions do you have for me about this assignment?