Interview a working professional in a career that you might enter to learn about the role of communication skills in your future profession.
Organize the information you receive from this interview into a three-minute oral report. Not that this is a chance to work on your oral presentation skills, not your Powerpoint skills. That means you will be creating a 3-minute video of yourself talking, not talking over slides.
The content of this report
should focus on the material you learned from the interview, not on
the mechanics of the interview itself.
In other words,
don't do something like this: "First I asked
Ms. Smith what her most important communication skill was, and then
she said it was writing emails. Next I asked her about the hardest
email she ever had to write, and she said . . ."
Do
something like this instead: "According to
Ms. Smith, an event planner working for Executive Events Corporation,
the most important communication skill for someone in her profession
is writing clear emails. The hardest email she ever had to write
involved . . ."
Videos are due February 8. We will be using the entirety of Week 5 to workshop them.