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The document discusses various modes of professional communication including business proposals, job interviews, and oral presentations. It provides examples of outlines for a business proposal and job interview preparation. The document also asks comprehension questions about the different communication genres and gives tasks for developing a business proposal, preparing for a job interview, and delivering an oral presentation.

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The document discusses various modes of professional communication including business proposals, job interviews, and oral presentations. It provides examples of outlines for a business proposal and job interview preparation. The document also asks comprehension questions about the different communication genres and gives tasks for developing a business proposal, preparing for a job interview, and delivering an oral presentation.

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Name: Course/Year/Section: BSCE 1A

Lesson 9: WRITTEN MODES OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

Comprehension Questions

Check your understanding of the input by answering the following questions:

1. Aside from the genres presented above, what are the other communication materials or
genres used across professions? Name at least three and give the detailed structure of
each.

2. How different are these genres in terms of structure when compared to their online
counterparts?

3. In what instances would the traditional form of genres be useful? What about their
online versions?
Name: Course/Year/Section: BSCE 1A

Task 9.1

Form yourselves into groups of four members. Decide on a business proposal that you want to
make for a certain organization or company. Prepare your business proposal and present it to
the class. Write your outline or draft below.
Name: Course/Year/Section: BSCE 1A

Lesson 5: WRITTEN MODES OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

Table 1. Job Interview Conduct


What to do? What not to do?

Table 2. Preparing for a Job Interview

Before the Interview

During The Interview

After The Interview

Table 3. Job Interview Conduct


What to do? What not to do?
Name: Course/Year/Section: BSCE 1A

Comprehension Questions

Recall what was presented and discussed in the input. Then answer the following questions:

1. What steps are involved in the job application process?

2. What communication skills are needed in applying for a job?

3. What is the importance of job interviews in the application period?


Name: Course/Year/Section: BSCE 1A

Lesson 11: The Oral Presentation

Comprehension Questions

Check your understanding of the input by answering the following questions:

1. Why is it important to analyze the audience and know about the logistics involved when
making an oral presentation?

2. How important are the prosodic features when delivering a talk, speech, or report?

3. How so you solve the conflict arising from a group presentation among members who
are not team players?

Task 11. 1
Assume that you are going to speak before an audience composed of professionals on a
perennial and relevant topic, for instance, “Smoking.” Find out as much about your audience by
answering the following questions:

1. Who is likely to attend your talk?

2. What is their background (education, profession, age range, gender, etc.)?

3. Why do you think they will come?

4. How will you convince them to stop their smoking habit?

Task 11.2

Choose a topic that interests you and later deliver the introduction and the conclusion in class.
Write the introduction using any of the following techniques as an opening or a beginning of
your speech:
1. Startling statement
2. Question
3. Statistics

Then write the body of your speech


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Finally, write the conclusion using any of the following techniques:


1. Quotation
2. Anecdote, story, illustration
3. A challenging statement

Group Activity

Form yourselves into two groups and view an oral presentation Flinders University in YouTube.
Write a critique as regards its effectiveness by paying attention to the following:

1. How the speakers started his/her report

2. The non-verbal code used by the speaker

3. The overall impact of the presentation on the listeners

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