Writing Assignment #4 will be an employment package.  The assignment involves writing a resume and cover letter.

 

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Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about audience analysis and appropriate oral and written communication for an audience.

 

Scenario

You have been recently promoted as junior vice president of human resources at your organization. You need to prepare your first presentation on appropriate communication to a group of twenty newly-hired employees for their orientation. The profile of the group is as follows:

• There are fifteen entry-level hires with no corporate experience, of which five have no job experience whatsoever.
• There are five upper-level hires, of whom three hold higher designations than yours and whose ages range between seventeen to fifty-five years.
• Of these twenty, six are Hispanic, two are Asian, two are African-American, and ten are Caucasian.
• Sixty percent of the group is women.
• There are two disabled employees, one of whom has a hearing disability while the other uses a wheelchair.

Task

Perform an audience analysis while planning your presentation. Ensure that you consider issues such as arrangement of the room, content and length of the presentation, and handouts and visual aids.

You are required to submit the following:

• Audience analysis
• PowerPoint presentation
• Audience handouts
• Notes on their observations about room, content and length of the presentation, and visual aids you plan to use

Place your audience analysis, audience handout information, and notes in a 5- to 7-page Microsoft Word document.

Support your responses with relevant examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Imagine that you have been chosen to represent a public health advocacy group as they begin a campaign to get legislation related to a health issue passed in your state legislature. You have been tasked with the role of presenting a proposed policy to the legislature and advocating that the legislature vote for the policy. You have been told that you will have 10 minutes to present to the legislature. Your presentation should be informative, but also persuasive. The legislature will need to make a decision about whether or not to vote for the policy based on your presentation. Your presentation should be structured exactly as if you were “live” in front of the legislature advocating for them to adopt the policy you are proposing.

For your assignment, you will need to select a public health topic of interest to you (you are encouraged to choose one related to your academic major or intended field of work) and a public health policy related to addressing the topic. You may select an actual proposed policy or create one that you think would effectively address the topic. Your presentation should provide enough information about the topic and the proposed policy that a reasonably educated legislator should be able to make an informed decision. Be sure to consider the various questions that a legislator might have about the issue and proposed policy, such as long-term costs and benefits, potential effects on business and industry (especially those that support politicians’ campaigns), and how the policy will support the health and productivity of state residents.

For this assignment, you should create an approximately 10 minute presentation* that addresses each of the following points:

• Discuss the public health issue that your proposed policy is intended to address. Questions to consider:
• Who does this health issue affect?
• What is the impact of this health issue on the community?
• Why does this health issue need to be addressed?
• Explain the proposed public health policy. Questions to consider:
• Who will be affected by this policy?
• How will this policy address the health issue?
• What will change by enacting this policy?
• Evaluate the impacts of the proposed policy. Questions to consider:
• What are the costs and benefits of the policy?
• What are the risks of enacting or not enacting the policy?
• How will the lives of people who are affected by the health issue change if this policy is enacted?
• Create an influential presentation that affects voting behaviors of legislators. Questions to consider:
• What information about this policy would potentially affect the voting behavior of legislators from across the political spectrum (eg. conservative, moderate, liberal, progressive; particularly those who might not support the policy based on political orientation)?
• What are the most important messages that legislators need to hear about this policy?
• How would the constituents of the legislators voting for this policy feel about this policy and a legislator who votes for it?
• What information would a legislator need to “sell” the policy to consitutents who were perhaps not in favor of adopting the policy?

*Note: Your presentation can be created using screencast software on your computer, the camera and microphone on your computer or handheld device, or the voice recording functions within a presentation program (like PowerPoint). Please see the announcement posted in Week 2 for more information on how to create effective presentations using one of these methods.

The Advocating for Public Health Policy assignment

• Must be an approximately 10 minute long formal presentation recorded as a video, screencast, or using the voice recording functions in a presentation program.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
• Title of paper
• Student’s name
• Course name and number
• Instructor’s name
• Date submitted
• Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• If the assignment is submitted as a video or screencast, your submission (via Waypoint) should be a document with the title page, a page that lists the URL of the presentation, and a page with your references. If the assignment is submitted as a voice recording within a presentation program, you should upload the slides from your presentation, and ensure that the first slide includes the information with the title page (as listed above) and a

Word document

120 words

List reference

 

Every individual affects the community in some way.

What individual factors (personal characteristics, genetics, developmental stage of life, lifestyle) affect community/public health?

What can advocates, policymakers, and others do to promote habits that will improve community health.