This week, you will prepare, practice, and deliver a 5- to 7-minute persuasive presentation with a PowerPoint. Review and apply the feedback from your instructor on your speech preparation outline and visual aids.
Live presentations should include a Q&A session at the end of the speech. Review Answering Questions From the Audience in this week’s lesson.
Your speech will be evaluated based on the following:
- Content: The Week 7 presentation needs to be persuasive in tone and execute a fully developed persuasive strategy that is supported by a PowerPoint presentation. This is not a narrated PowerPoint; it should be a live or recorded video presentation of you delivering your presentation with PowerPoint (or something similar) as your visual aid. Keep in mind that a visual aid assists the presenter and does not become the entire presentation. The slides should not be read to the audience.
- Preparation: Your final presentation should incorporate all four canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, and delivery) in designing and delivering your message. You should have a strong introduction, several main points supported by research, and a strong conclusion. Incorporate the techniques for vocal variety and using language vividly. Address opposing viewpoints to your stance, and incorporate at least one into your speech, followed by a strong rebuttal.
- Timing: The presentation should be 5 to 7 minutes. You should have 5 to 10 slides, plus a title slide at the beginning and an APA-formatted reference slide at the end (in addition to the 5-10 slides of content).
- Research: Incorporate the research from scholarly sources that were referenced in your speech preparation outline. During the delivery of the presentation, there should be a minimum of three oral citations.
Delivery: This speech should demonstrate a mastery of the extemporaneous speaking style.
Instructions for Recording: Kaltura Capture (under My Media) is recommended for recording your computer screen that displays your PowerPoint slides while you are on camera delivering your persuasive speech. Check to confirm that the link to your recording is a shareable link that works!
Review your speech to ensure that it meets the grading rubric criteria.
Be sure to submit by the due date.
