Oral Progress Report

Your 10-15 minute, scripted oral progress report for project 3 should provide an introduction to your client's organization, including information about your client's needs and resources. Further, it should include specifics concerning the field research your team has conducted in order to analyze your client's context and Web needs. Each team member must participate equitably in both the planning of the oral report and its delivery to the class. This presentation must include not only verbal but also visual components.

Note: For information about expectations concerning your team's delivery of the oral progress report, you must consult the "Considerations for the Oral Reports" document.

Purposes
This presentation allows your team to:

• update me and other members of the class on analysis of your client's organizational context and Web communication needs.
• discuss the field research your team has conducted in order to formulate feasible recommendations for your client.
• share ideas with and receive feedback from your peers.
• gain more experience in giving polished, professional presentations.

Report components
Your oral progress report is due on Friday, November 8 and should include both verbal and visual components.

• Project Overview
• Field Research
• Preliminary Data Analysis
• Remaining Tasks
• Visuals (can be documents from the organization or the organization's webpage)

Description of components

Project overview
Your team should give an overview of your client context and an indication of what you will address in your presentation. Note: Your overview section should summarize the content of your presentation, not describe the general assignment for project 3. Keep this overview very short and don't ad-lib because you'll end up preempting information that you'll offer later.

Field research
Your team should list the methods you have used to collect information about your client, including interviews and observations. Your presentation also should indicate what research your team has done toward assessing the costs involved in implementing your recommendations. Your field research should be adequately contextualized. That is, your assessment of your client's needs should be supported by your field research not by uncomplicated, overgeneralizations about the benefits of the web.

Preliminary data analysis
Your team should highlight the points from your data that are most relevant to your formulation of feasible recommendations. You should analyze how and why the information that you highlight is significant to the recommendations that your team will offer to the client. As with the field research section of your oral report, your preliminary data analysis section should be adequately contextualized.

Remaining tasks
Your team should outline the steps needed not only to generate potential recommendations but also to confirm the feasibility of those recommendations before finalizing your report.

Visuals
Your team should integrate a few visuals throughout the presentation. Your visuals should not only have a professional appearance but also enhance the rhetorical effectiveness of your discussion.