Presentation Feed Back
The four discussions are very well structured with each discussion starting by indicating the topic being discussed, the audience targeted by the discussion, the date the discussion was presented and the reason behind choosing that particular topic for discussion. By indicating all this information in their introduction, they enable the reader to prepare him or herself for that particular topic by providing him/her with forehand information on what to expect in the rest of the discussion (Smith, & Clark, 2013).
Another highly positive thing about all the discussions is that they provide well formulated, clear and direct answers to all the discussion questions. This is commendable as it significantly reduces the risk of presenting the reader with too much information some of which may be irrelevant and only serve to confuse the reader (Yu, & Hatzivassiloglou, 2013). The style utilized for answering each question is also commendable as the respondents first answer the question and then proceed to provide the reasons as to why they gave that particular answer. This demonstrates to whoever is reading the presentation question that the individual who answered that particular question is knowledgeable of the topic he/she is discussing (Gaziano, & McGrath, 2009). By giving a basis for each and every answer, the respondents provide credibility to the answers (Gaziano, & McGrath, 2009).
One should also recognize that in each of the discussion the respondents provide a reason as to why they choose that particular topic for the presentation. This information is crucial as it enables the reader to gouge the respondent’s level of understanding on that particular topic and thus determine his level of credibility on the subject matter being discussed (Pace, 2015).
One pertinent question that is missing from the discussion questions is on the target audience’s response to the presentations. This question wills enable the individual reading the discussions to know how well the respondents delivered the presentations. Therefore one should ask how the target audience response to the presentation was.
References
Gaziano, C., & McGrath, K. (2009). Measuring the concept of credibility. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 63(3), 451.
Pace, C. R. (2015). The Credibility of Student Self-Reports.
Smith, V. L., & Clark, H. H. (2013). On the course of answering questions. Journal of memory and language, 32(1), 25-38.
Yu, H., & Hatzivassiloglou, V. (2013). Towards answering opinion questions: Separating facts from opinions and identifying the polarity of opinion sentences. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing (pp. 129-136). Association for Computational Linguistics.
