POWER POINT ASSIGNMENT                                                       (HOME)

ENGL 410-001: Technical and Report Writing Spring 2007
George Mason University
Scott Berg, Instructor


The final PowerPoint presentation is due IN ELECTRONIC FORM via e-mail on Tuesday, May 8 (the same day you hand in the rest of your course materials).  I do NOT want a paper copy of the PowerPoint.

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The assignment:

The recommendation to the board of your organization/company (or other designated audience) has gone well.  They have decided to implement the recommendation immediately.  At the next all-employee meeting (or some other appropriate venue) your department is to inform the organization of this impending action via a Power Point presentation. NOTE: The PowerPoint will also be distributed via e-mail to your employees, so it will need to work as a stand-alone document to some degree.

There is much more room to be "creative" with the Power Point than there was with the recommendation report.  By "creative," I don't mean the use of graphics or strange fonts -- I mean that there will be no one dictated way to put your Power Point presentation together.  However, there are certain points that seem to obvious places to begin.  Some examples:

•   A statement of the issue/problem facing the organization (roughly corresponds to section 3 of your written report)

•   A statement of the action to be taken  (roughly corresponds to sections 4-5 of your written report)

•   A statement of the rationale behind this action  (roughly corresponds to section 5 of your written report)

•   A statement of the expected results and benefits of this action  (roughly corresponds to sections 3-5 of your written report)

•   A statement of initial steps necessary to take this action (roughly corresponds to the end of section 5 of your written report)

•   Supporting materials (in MS Word or Excel form suitable for printing) that provide more detail regarding the necessity and feasibility of this action.  (May be drawn from sections 3-7 of your report or from elsewhere.)

The above list of six items does not imply that other items might not be included, depending on your understanding of the situation, and it does not imply that because there are six items in the list there will be six slides in your presentation.  Some or all of the items above might deserve multiple slides.

Keep in mind our readings, our discussions, and the Power Point samples we've seen as you put this together.