Write me a letter $($not an email$)$ asking for permission to present on your chosen presentation topic.

$($Your topic must be appropriate for a business environment. $($How to ditch a guy in $20$ days would NOT be appropriate, but How to guarantee better sleep or How to get co$-$workers to become invested in changing their eating habits or Finding purpose at work or Colour blindness or Phobias or How to find the perfect job or How to work smart or How to design your future or How to live until you're $100$ or How Social Media contributes to social anxiety or How to structure your life to minimize mental illness etc. would be appropriate. As long as it would be appropriate in a work setting, even if it's not a business topic per se$,$ just about any topic is fine.$)$ If you choose to present on a stale, old, not novel topic, your grade will be about. $60\%.$ EVEN IF IT'S A WELL$-$STRUCTURED PRESENTATION. Only novel, fresh topics stand a chance of getting above $80\%.)$

Now back to the instructions for this assignment $...$

In this letter, make sure to apply all we have learned so far in this course about format, tone, conventions, and organization. Remember to use your own words, so that you don't plagiarize. My information is: Tanya Haye, COMM $1103$ Communication Instructor, BCIT, $1234$ Hard Work Rd$.,$ Burnaby, BC$,$ T$1$A $2$B$3.$ You can make up your address, too.

Review textbook Chapter $7$ to remind yourself of information on letters, and look at different sample letters.

Your letter must contain the following information outlining your presentation, and be one to two pages long. Submit the letter to the dropbox for Assignment $3$ when complete:

Presentation Topic$/$Title: Think of your presentation topic$/$title like a subject line $--$ keep it informative and specific $--$ but also try to make it interesting and intriguing for the audience.

Presentation's Intended Audience: Who is your specific audience? You can choose any audience that works for your topic. Give enough details to provide a picture of who the audience is $($so I can imagine ages, potential interests, etc. $($e$.$g$.,$ "Grade $12$ Carson Graham students" would be a good start$).$

Presentation Purpose: See Module $9$ for how to construct a one to two sentence purpose statement that includes your audience, the intended action or reaction, and your topic. This purpose will help shape your whole presentation.

Presentation Length: The presentation should be planned to be not less that $5$ minutes long, and not more than $9$ minutes long. Aim for $7$ minutes.

Presentation's $3$ Main Points: Remember, the main topics should be previewed in the introduction, and the main messages summarized in the conclusion.

Planned Presentation Visuals and Medium$($s$)$: What visual type$($s$)($illustrations$,$ etc.$)$ and medium$($s$)($flip chart, whiteboard, etc.$)$ are you thinking of using? $($e$.$g$.,$ A $45-$second clip from Early Death video, PowerPoint slides including an agenda and a bar graph, etc.$).$ Remember: Visuals must follow the guidelines for presentation visuals in the text and module, and you must write all visual text yourself.

$***$ As you think about your presentation visuals, think about where and how you will record your presentation. Given sufficient notice, MediaWorks in the Burnaby Campus Library, or the A$/$V department at any BCIT campus, can help you access a video camera, projection screen, flip chart, etc., and tell you how to access a space to record your video $--$ if you need help, start asking questions now. $***$

Presentation Information Sources for you to Consult: List names of websites, people, books, workplace documents, reports, etc. you will consult to gather information. Keep track of your research sources, and include at least the name of the report, website, or person sources in your presentation $($either spoken or written down$).$ Please go beyond Wikipedia, and include information from more than one source.

$***$ If you need to change any details $($topic scope, visuals choices, sources, etc.$)$ as you do research or further prepare your presentation, that's fine. This outline is a working document, a plan for next steps. However, if you want to change your presentation topic after submitting your outline, you should send me an email. $***$