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Hello writer, please help me out with a presentation that is due this afternoon. Thank you so much. Below is the instructions.
Using the information found in GreenTalk #4 by Jerry Gao, create a Power Point presentation with no more than seven informational slides plus one title slide and one References slide (nine slides total). The trick is you may only have a maximum of 25 words per slide, and you must incorporate at least three images (from sources other than presented in the GreenTalk) that visually support these facts. As you organize your information, think of sequence that best serves your audience and purpose
Rhetorical Situation
City of San Jose has hired you for an internship position. You are committed to work hard to build your resume and offer innovative solutions to make our city a “Smart(er) City.” As a resident of Bay Area, living in Santa Clara County, you have been asked to put together a power point presentation and then present to the Mayor Mahan’s office. In your presentation, explain what type of surveillance system can the city implement to help the environment, reduce the pollution, and make it greener and smarter.
Some areas you can focus on are the following:
1. Building Security
2. Event security
3. Home security
4. School campus security
5. Airport security
6. Parking garage security
7. Construction site security
8. Coastal security
9. Coastal pollution surveillance
10. Monitoring of illegal dumping
Whatever context and form of surveillance you choose, make sure you provide steps to achieve the end goal.
Powerpoint Presentation Lesson
Professional speakers understand that logos should be the primary focus of a technical presentation. So each slide should focus on data, facts, statistics, and/or concepts and language that are key to your audience understanding the topic.
That said, research shows that too much information on one slide DECREASES audience comprehension. Keep your images and text simple. If you use a large data-rich image—make it take up the whole slide or the majority of the slide. Or, you use a theme-slide, an image that visually supports topic without data. If you are adept at PPT already, then try using transparency tools with a large image as background, and layer bold text in front of the image. Generally, though, focus on decreasing clutter, to increase the power of your message.
Formatting Guidelines
Your first slide must clarify the topic and the source (the GreenTalk speaker). Your last slide must include an APA reference and your contact information. Here is an APA style guide that I use for creating References: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html
Regarding Images…
If you select an image from the internet that is fact-based (logos), such as data tables or bar graphs, then the source for this information must be visible on the slide where it appears. Remember, your audience must evaluate the source (both the logos and ethos) in order to determine if that information is valid—most professional audiences won’t just take your word for it, they need to evaluate the source themselves.
If it’s a pretty picture or a shape—we don’t want to know who made it and indeed the practice of adding source information to “pretty” visuals may distract the audience, which is why we only place attribution for this type of image on the References slide at the end, or you can use a tiny font or lighter font to add the source information in a discrete way to the image on the slide.
Make sure you select simple images that are large enough to see clearly and that directly support (but do not distract) from the facts on the slide.
Writer’s Tip: keep each slide style consistent. Same font, consistent colors, same bullet point style. Get all of the facts out, and then work through revision to reduce the number of words per slide, then pick the image. In selecting the image, think to yourself: how can I visually represent this concept/word/fact without distracting the viewer?
Once finished, proofread and edit your slides because every mistake on a PPT counts for reduction of points, so please take the time to edit. In a real presentation, mistakes have an immediate negative impact on ethos and logos appeal.
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