SHARING YOUR COMMUNICATION INQUIRY EXPERIENCE  (Oral Presentation)

PURPOSE: The purpose of this ORAL PRESENTATION is first, to share with your classmates ONE of the most meaningful (life-giving) COMMUNICATION INQUIRY EXPERIENCES (in your personal relationships, at work, or any other context). Second, to enhance your presentational communication skills. On the other hand, this assignment is designed to emphasize that you already know a good deal about the practice of research about communication. Actually, you have been conducting research all your life. Therefore, our distinctive communication experiences do account as legitimate and valued sources of knowledge, and we can learn from each other.

TOPIC: You are free to select the communication inquiry experience for your presentation. Look for the most meaningful one (mainly positive or negative (but life-giving) from your past and/or current communication experiences.

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE:  The content of the communication experience should be structured in three sections:
1) Describe briefly the communication experience: the context and what happened.
2) Provide your own theoretical explanation for what happened. Tell us: a) why it (the communication experience) happened (the causes), b) the relationships that you discovered, and c) the consequences or implications. Direct experience, observation, and  reasoning are different ways of knowing. (Read Chapter 1 of our textbook on human communication inquiry).
3) Tell us what did you learn from the experience (3 majors learnings). Make your knowledge claims about the communication experience you had.

WRITTEN OUTLINE: The content of your oral presentation must be summarized in TWO-TYPED-PAGE, FULL-SENTENCE OUTLINE. The basic structure of this outline must contained: (Include the following section titles in written outline): WRITE the titles of these sections in your OUTLINE.
I. Introduction: 1. Attention Getter, 2. Purpose and Topic, and 3. Preview only Titles of the communication experiences: a) Description..., b) Theoretical explanation, c) Learnings.
II. Body: These three(3) main points: 1) Description of the communication experience, 2) Theoretical explanation/and Theoretical Inputs. 3) Learnings.
III. Conclusion: 1. Summary (Restate only Titles of the main points of your presentation: a) Description, b) Theoretical explanation, and c) Learnings), and 2. Final Thought.

    Cite sources in outlined and list them in page No. 3 using APA or MLA citation system. One citation from textbook is required.
The oral presentation must emphasized: 1) Content relevance and organization, 2) Physical delivery skills (eye contact, gestures, dynamism); 3) Vocal delivery skills (volume, and rate); and 4) Visual aids (One visual aid is required). Each individual presentation will last from 7-8 minutes. After the oral presentation, you will have some time (7 minutes) to entertain some questions from your classmates.
This is a 10 point assignment:
a) Content and Speech Organization:............ 4 points
b) Delivery (dynamism, visual aids, etc):........ 3 points
c) Written Outline:................................. 3 points
Please hand in to me a copy of your outline the day of your presentation.
This assignment is due:____________________

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