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Keaton Mohr McGough - English 250H -OVE Reflection As much as written communication is very important it todays society, oral,

visual, and electronic communication is as equally important as written communication. In English 250 Honors this year, we had a heavily-weighted project that involved presenting a proposal on designing a memorial. This included group work, which involves heavily on oral communication between my team members and me so we could meet and work together on the project, as much as visual and electronic communication to design a memorial and put it all together as a presentation. My group chose to propose a memorial for the My Lai Massacre in the Vietnam War. First, we were asked to form groups. When I chose my group, I chose people that I knew I could work easily with and members that I could rely on to get their part done on the project. When we first met, I was designated the leader of the group, and so I did the most oral communication on organizing when we would meet and dividing responsibilities. During our presentation, we all had certain sections that we presented orally to our class. I opened the presentation with a story about the survivors of the My Lai Massacre. I had it memorized so I could make eye contact with many of my classmates, and I used emotion to have an effective opening for the rest of the presentation. At the end of class, my professor congratulated me on an effective speech during the presentation. The second part of the project was visual communication. As one of my responsibilities, I drew the design we had come up with. I originally did it in pencil, but I added color into it so it would be better for the audience to see. It also added more life to the design, and helped designate the different components to the design. For the presentation, my group decided to put together a Google Presentation. In this, we decided to use a calm, neutral color scheme as the background to make it more visually pleasing for the audience. For the font, we chose a size that was easily read, and a color that was the opposite of the background so it could be seen easier. Instead of writing down every single point we had in sentence form, we chose to just add points in

bullet point form so the audience could follow what we were speaking about, but they could still focus on us and hear the information we had to tell them. Lastly, we used the Google Presentation as our form of electronic communication. We decided to do our presentation online so it would be easier for us as a group to communicate with each other when we werent meeting. Doing the presentation on a PowerPoint wouldve been difficult because we would have to e -mail it to each other, and not everyone in our group had PowerPoint downloaded on their computer. Google Presentation was easily accessible and worked on any computer, as long as internet was available. It is also reliable because since its online, we didnt have to upload it to a flash drive. This made it easier to access when it was time to present to our class and made the process faster so we could get right to presenting. Our audience for this project was our class, who would be hypothetically judging us to see if they would fund our project. We kept in mind when we were presenting that we were being judged the whole time. For our first rough draft, we were using the wrong words in some places and didnt have intellectual word usage. So when we revised our outline, we added more intellectual words to strike our audience and used the right words to build our ethos. This project really helped me personally build on the oral communication skills that I already had, but it more helped me with the visual and electronic communication skills I was lacking. This project has helped me become more of a well-rounded communicator, and has helped me expand on my communication skills not just as a writer, but as a presenter. Without these skills, my communication wouldnt be as effective, and communicating with others is vital to society today.

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