ACTIVITY BRIEF FOR ASSESSMENT 1 ACADEMIC YEAR 2021 — 2022 – SPRING Course BCO122 — Oral Communication Skills (3CH/4ECTS) Instructor Judith Pye Participation in all assessment activities stated in this document is required. An overall course total of 70 points is required to pass the course. Due dates and times are always in Geneva time. Assessment 2 Description Task 1.5 & 1.6 Persuasive Speech and PowerPoint Assessment Type: Video Presentation with PowerPoint Due date and time Weight of course total 25/03/2022 14:00 30% Description: You will record a Persuasive video speech with a PowerPoint to guide your audience For further details of this assessment task, please consult the information below. • • 20% – Video presentation 10% PowerPoint Slides INSTRUCTIONS Your Task: You will produce a formal presentation on a business problem, following your outline as submitted for task 1.4 and provide a video and a professionally designed PowerPoint. FORMAT Your submission must meet the following formatting requirements: • Follow your outline submitted carefully (you can take into consideration my feedback) • PowerPoint format with link to your video file at end • Please use PowerPoint or Loom to record your video • Slides — 8-10 (not including title slide and bibliography • Video on each slide presenting the information • Include all your references in the bibliography in Harvard style Please ensure that: 1. Your volume is loud enough 2. Your video is large enough to see your facial expressions and gestures clearly 3. The link to your video is accessible to all with the link 4. All your sources are referenced in Harvard style LEARNING OUTCOMES • • • • understand the differences between verbal and nonverbal communication and how to use each effectively, being aware of the influence of each on effective communication; demonstrate the ability to research, organize, prepare and deliver individual oral presentations; create effective visual aids that will enhance oral presentations; create a successful persuasive message tailored to your audience ASSESSMENT CRITERIA Please see rubrics below Rubric: PowerPoint 10% Compositio n of visual aids 50% Content 50% Exceptional Good Fair Marginal Fail Fail 100-90 89-80 79-70 69-60 Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 10 Slides Tags: company social media IT User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.