This directions are below and on the document attached. The chosen topic is  Angel Oaks Company  You work for a locally owned, small- to medium-sized business. (Your choice; pick a real company that is headquartered in metro Atlanta that does not offer tuition reimbursement). Convince the CEO and key decision makers to offer a tuition reimbursement program.   You must describe the scope of the reimbursement and how employees would qualify. This assignment is based on the PREMISE that you work for the company, and I want you to make that scenario as real as possible.  However, the email is only going to be read by me. You may have difficulty finding email addresses. You can make it up. Usually, corporate addresses are [email protected] Many of the topics allow you to decide what position you have in the company. Assign yourself a role below the level of the decision-makers.  You can assume you have some experience with the position (at least a year).  If you were brand new, it would be too presumptuous to make suggestions. Once you establish your role, give a great deal of thought to the reasons why the company should make a change.  It is important to focus on reasons that matter to the company. Persuasive Presentation & Email Invitation Will Help You Persuade Decision Makers How you earn points One email invitation persuading your bosses to attend your presentation ………….. 50 points Student uploads a rehearsal AND provides peer feedback on rehearsal and slides ……………………………………………………………………………….. 20 points 6-minute presentation with slides ………………………………………………………………….. 130 points Reflection on presentation …………………………………………………………………………… 25 points The rubrics are published in the Assessments/Assignment Folder and in the Content/Assignment Resources Cabinet in iCollege Dropbox. Note: The deadline posted on Connect is for the completion of the entire assignment: video + peer review. Be sure and submit your video ON THE DATE ASSIGNED. The deadline you see in Connect is the deadline for the peer review. OVERVIEW In many business situations, you may need to persuade others to accept an idea and to take action. In this assignment, you will develop your persuasive skills. You must support your position logically with valid evidence. The assignment requires two parts: 1) an invitation to your bosses convincing them to attend your presentation and asking for a RSVP. 2) a 6-minute persuasive presentation with slides on one of the topics provided in the list below. During this assignment, you will provide feedback to your peers. You must wear business professional attire. You must follow business professional staging directions. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS The skills learned during this assignment will help you to: • Organize material for a persuasive argument, written or spoken • Recognize logical fallacies • Polish visual aids for greatest impact • Create easily understood, meaningful graphics of data and statistical evidence • Convince people to take action • Evaluate effectiveness of persuasive content, organization, logic, and visual aids including charts • Demonstrate concise, grammatically correct writing skills • Practice the format and writing style used in business DELIVERABLES 1. Feedback to peers, as directed, by the deadline. 2. Email Invitation: Upload to the iCollege Assessments/Assignment box by the deadline. 3. Presentation: • Persuasive Communication Strategy Worksheet and Outline, works cited in MLA format, and PowerPoint file must be uploaded to the iCollege Assessments/Assignment box by the deadline. • 6-minute presentation must be uploaded to Connect by clicking on the assignment link. • Reflection form. Fill out and upload to the iCollege Assessments/Assignment box by the deadline. EMAIL INVITATION INSTRUCTIONS You have worked hard building a persuasive case for your recommendation. You hope to present the case to all key decision makers in the company. Invite them to your presentation. Make such a convincing case to attend that they click on the registration link. Following these guidelines will help you write an effective email. 1. The subject heading should be enticing and descriptive. 2. Address the colleagues respectfully. For long lists, we suggest Dear CEO Last Name and Department Heads 3. Organize the email into three parts: introduction, body, close. 4. The introduction should build desire to attend your presentation. Do NOT begin with your name. The intro should grab attention. Then, let the audience know who you are and briefly build your credibility. It should describe what the email is about. 5. The second paragraph should provide more details (what the presentation is about, how long, the benefits of attending). It should provide a way to register. (You can use a fictional Zoom or WebEx link). 6. The third paragraph should restate the overarching message and call the audience to action. 7. Follow business professional format for the email: • The text is block left (no paragraph indentation), ragged right (no justified margins). • All lines are single spaced. • An extra line space is used between paragraphs. 8. You must use Grammarly to check your work. You may access your FREE Grammarly account here. https://technology.gsu.edu/technology-services/it-services/training-and-learningresources/grammarly/ Also use other online proofing tools available in Word and the free Hemingway Editor. Most importantly, read the work OUTLOUD and make sure it makes sense. PRESENTATION INSTRUCTIONS Make a professional business recommendation, based on one of the listed topics. Read the topic carefully. All the appropriate bosses and the chief decision-maker will hear the six-minute presentation. Prove that there is a need to make a change. Tell them what change you recommend. Emphasize proven benefits of such a change. Convince the leadership team to accept your recommendation. The presentation will include visual aids and an original chart. The slides will be added to the recording (a feature in Connect). Wear business professional attire. Follow business professional staging directions (camera lens at eye level, plain background, well-lit, clear audio, shot shows speaker from sternum to just above the top of the head). Follow these steps: 1. Select a topic from the list following the directions provided by your instructor. 2. Research the topic thoroughly. The BCOM Library Resource webpage has excellent databases that will provide useful information. You must cite out loud at least three expert sources (not including the textbook) during the presentation. You must turn in a works cited page that uses MLA format. 3. Thoroughly complete the Persuasive Communication Strategy Worksheet and Outline. 4. Create a credible, effective 6-minute presentation that convinces your audience to allow you to make your recommendation to the key decision-maker. Follow this effective organization model for persuasion: Intro Body A) problem (or need for a change) B) the recommended change C) benefits of changing Close An outline of this model is provided on the Persuasive Communication Strategy Worksheet. Follow it to create the outline of your presentation. 5. Your presentation must include appropriate and effective slides. Note: the first slide must help you grab attention! Use it to reinforce the content in the attention-grabbing introduction. Do not begin with a slide that states the topic. • You must include a professional, relevant, easy-to-read chart that you create. It must help to build your case. Provide the source of the data on the chart. Review Chapter 12, p. 377 Creating Effective Charts and information in Connect. • Use the slides to enhance your message. Each slide should be simple, visual, and memorable. Readers should be able to grasp the message easily and quickly. You may not use clip art. We have posted videos on iCollege on creating and designing effective slides. Review Chapter 14, Design Appealing Slides (p. 455). 6. Practice with the outline, but work to reduce the content to one 3×5 notecard with as few words as possible. You may use one note card during the recording. 7. Set up the shot in a well-lit, quiet room and stand in front of a plain background. Frame the shot so that shot from your sternum to just above the top of your head). The camera lens must be at eye level. You will speak right to the camera, pretending that you are delivering a presentation via the Internet. Do not edit the recording. It should be recorded from beginning to end, with no stops. Edits will count against your grade. 8. Add your slides to the recording. This link tells you how to add slides: Https://help.GoReact.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004267391-Adding-slides-to-a-video 9. Upload the following required materials to the iCollege Persuasive Presentation Dropbox: Communication Strategy Worksheet and final speaking outline, works cited, and copy of the visual aids. 10. Within 24 hours of making the presentation, submit the Reflection to the iCollege Persuasive Reflection Dropbox. Video Help: We use Connect/GoReact for the assignment. This site has useful information on how to record, upload, and review the video. Https://help.GoReact.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002346311 Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: Invitation to Angel Oaks Company Persuasive Presentation Invitation not offer tuition reimbursement Lumina Foundation and Accenture American multinational healthcare User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor 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.