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DENG 611 Assignment (10 Points)

This assignment is designed to assess your skills in the key areas of advanced writing skills.
Please complete the tasks below and submit your assignment per the instructions.

Part 1: Reflective Essay Task (4 Points)

Objective: Reflective Essay
Instructions: Answer the reflective essay question (a minimum of 150 words).
Reflective essay topic: How can you use communication skills to deliver better presentations?

Part 2: Presentation Task (6 Points)

Objective: Develop a coherent and structured PowerPoint presentation
Instructions:
1. Select a topic from the list prepared below and prepare a PowerPoint presentation highlighting your
knowledge of effective presentation. (approximately 8 - 10 slides).
a. The effect of social media on mental health.
b. The future of remote work: trends and predictions.
c. Climate change: evidence, causes, and solutions.
d. AI: Opportunities and ethical dilemmas
e. The science of happiness: What makes us happy?
f. Understanding body language in communication
g. Strategies for effective presentations
2. Ensure that your presentation is clear, uses, graphics, and attracts your audience's attention.

Submission Guidelines
● Submit all tasks through the Blackboard.
● Adhere to the word and time limits for each task.

Assignment Rubrics

1. Reflective Essay Task (Total: 4 Marks)

Below Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations

Criteria
0 1 2
Insightful understanding,
Minimal understanding of Clear understanding,
Understood the idea completely accurate
the idea minor inaccuracies
Detail All details accurately
Incorrect or no details Details correctly identified
Accuracy identified
identified Good analysis, mostly
Analysis Deep and insightful
Basic or no analysis relevant points
analysis
More than 6 language Language errors were
Language accuracy Only 3-5 language errors
errors minimal no more than 2

2. Writing Task (Total: 6 Marks)

Below Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Criteria 0 1 2
 Well organized, clear
Highly organized,
structure
Structure & Content Disorganized, unclear excellent clarity
Relevant with minor off-
Relevance Off-topic, irrelevant Completely relevant, on-
topic instances
topic
Numerous errors, poor Few errors, good language Virtually no errors (1-2),
Language Accuracy language use (more than 5 use (3-5) excellent language use
Creativity errors) Original ideas, creative Highly original,
Lacks originality, clichéd approach exceptionally creative

Visuals were used to

Visuals used in the
No visuals used Visuals were partially used support the content of the
presentation
presentation clearly.