Description of Assessment Criteria

DRESS code for presentation: business attire. Penalty of 1 mark will apply if dressed inappropriately.

Record about 10-minute (max 12 minutes) video on appropriate video software (e.g. PowerPoint), upload your video to an appropriate video service (e.g. Youtube), and submit the link to your presentation for marking. Please also submit your slides (titled with your full names and Griffith ID#).

Below are some hints on how to address the presentation marking criteria for this stock pitch well.  

Introduction (7 marks)

• The introduction should be around 40-50 seconds and cover:
  • Who you are;
  • Your topic (referred to as “the item” in this document);  
  • Identify what the main purpose of your presentation;
  • 2-3 key areas to be covered in your presentation.

Content (14 marks)

• As a presenter of the topic you should explain major relevant points in the structured and logical way.
• It is important to research the topic well and have a good knowledge of the topic you are discussing. You might need to check other sources to understand the material presented in the report. When you discuss the information not presented in the report, make sure you make a proper references in your slides/presentation (author-date style is preferred), e.g. Smith (2018), together with reference list on the last slide.
• You are expected to present numerical information from the stock report and other sources. Make sure you use appropriate numbers and ratios to enhance your presentation.
• Your knowledge of the content will be reflected in part by your reliance on notes during the presentation. This is about 10 minutes presentation so notes should be kept to a bare minimum (preferably they should not be used at all).

Organisation (7 marks)

• The structure and sequencing of your presentation is the “flow” of your presentation. Your presentation has to be coherent, that is, it is easy to follow and it makes sense.  Do your presentation in front of your parents, partners, friends and colleagues. Then at the end of the presentation, ask them to summarise your presentation. If they produce an answer that doesn’t make sense, then your presentation is unlikely to make sense in front of the audience.

Voice (5 marks)

• There are the 4 P’s of voice – preparation, projection, pitch and pronunciation.
• Voice all starts with the preparation. Athletes prepare for events by doing a number of stretching exercises. The same philosophy applies to voice. Exercise your lips before your presentation (motor boat, laugh, yawn, sing).
• Projection means your voice needs to carry to all audience members. This should not be difficult in the smaller meeting and tutorial rooms. It is important not to shout out your presentation though.  
• Pitch relates to how high or low the sound of your voice is. An ultra squeaky voice is annoying whilst a low voice like Barry White (for those who don’t know Barry White, google him) is difficult to understand. You can also vary the pitch to engage the audience.
• Finally you need to pronounce words and vowel sounds correctly in a word. The rule of thumb is if you cannot pronounce the word right in practice, replace it.    

Pace (5 marks)

• Pace relates to the speed and timing of your delivery. 
• The speed of delivery can affect the audience’s understanding of your presentation. Speak too quickly and you lose the audience because they cannot understand what you are saying. Speak too slowly and you bore the audience to death.
• The timing of the delivery relates to how you maintain the speed of your delivery. People who over-rely on palm cards tend to have large variations in the timing of their delivery. They speak faster when they read off their palm cards and slower without them. Students also tend to pause for too long when they go back to their palm cards. This criterion doesn’t stop you from varying your speed to emphasise a point though – this is an effective tool to engage the audience.
• You must also stick to the time limit of 10 minutes. This requires practise. Presentations that go beyond the time limit will be interrupted and marked as incomplete.

Visual Aids (7 marks)

• You are in a meeting or tutorial room with audio-visual facilities.
• A visual aid is just that – an aid. Visual aids assist the audience in the structure of your presentation and they demonstrate key points. They are not a substitute for your presentation. For example, your presentation should not simply be reading off your Power Point slides. 
• Your visual aids may be a chart, a hand out, traditional Power Point Slides, Internet / Audio or Video. Please note that trying to explain whole presentation on the white board will score poorly in this (and likely other) assessment categories.    
• If your visual aids are in text, make sure that you keep them simple and use large readable fonts.  
• For Visual Aids, marking will also consider slide designing quality to interest potential investors, such as slides layout, colour scheme/s, etc.

Conclusion (5 mark)

• The conclusion is a wrap up of what you have covered in your presentation and a key message about the item that you want the audience to take away – remember the audience is likely to remember your conclusion the most out of the presentation.  

And remember to practise!!

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