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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
This discussion gives you the opportunity to practice using simple tools available
in Microsoft Office or free online programs to make visuals appropriate for
business documents. This will help you prepare to make visuals for your
presentation and your final business report.
Directions:
Read the scenario in problem 16.8 (pg. 547) in which a local food bank needs
some graphics to enhance a request for better funding. Using some of their data,
create one effective visual they could use to make their appeal. You don’t need
to represent all the data given. Choose one or two pieces of information you
think you could represent effectively, and think carefully about the best kinds of
visualizations for the point you are trying to make. Use the advice in Ch. 16 and
Unit 6 lecture to help you compose your image.
When you reply to your peers, evaluate their image. Consider these questions: What do you find effective and why? What aspects of the image could be improved? What interesting approaches did your classmates take to making a
persuasive visual? How well do the visuals follow the guidelines in the visuals chapter? What questions do you have about how the image was created? SCENARIO BELOW:
You are volunteering for a local food bank and the director has asked for your
assistance. The food bank may be able to receive some state funding if the director
can assemble a persuasive proposal about the need for the food bank. The director
gives you the following information and asks if you can create data displays for it. â–
Food bank is open four days a week. â– One director and four volunteers. â– Food
bank feeds 100–150 families per week. ■Of those families, 95% have children
under 18. â– Often, food will run out by the end of Thursday. â– If given more
support, the food bank could feed many more families in need (the goal would be
250), and could hire more staff members. As your instructor directs, a. In a small
group, identify and discuss possible data displays for the proposal. b. Individually,
create one (or more) data display using the given data. Write an e-mail to your
instructor where you justify your design choices. c. With a small group, create three
data displays that persuade the state agency of the need for funding. Present the
data displays to the class in an informal presentation where you justify your design choices.
Locker, Kitty. Business And Administrative Communication, 11E,With Access Code
For Connect Plus (Page 547). McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Kindle Edition.
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