1. Agenda Document analysis Final housekeeping details Wrap up and review
Course evaluations

2. Document analysis Read the e-mail regarding the “Naked Mile”
What is the main point? What does the writer hope to accomplish?
How effective is the document?
How does the document compare to ones on a similar topic that you may have received? (Tone, directness, specificity, etc.) If there are differences, why?

3. Final housekeeping Grades posted on-line 4/24
Materials returned to mail folders by 4/27

4. Wrap up and review Review of course goals Final self-assessment
Review of course concepts
Key take-aways

5. Review of course goals
Analyze receiver needs and business situations to choose effective message channels
Persuasively articulate and support a position
Select, organize, and present information to achieve objectives
Understand uses and limits of technology
Critically evaluate your own and others’ writing
Develop a repertoire of strategies that facilitate communication

6. Final self-assessment
Review your documents from this semester and from your portfolio from last year
Think about your initial goals and your mid-term goals for business communication
Assess where you are in terms of achieving those goals or any new ones you’ve developed
Identify one or two key communication goals for your career that you think you can achieve within five years

7. Review of course concepts
Strategies
Tools
Audience
Objective

8. Key take-aways Each of you should now:
Be aware of the complexity of business communication
Have the tools to analyze a situation and audience quickly and accurately
Recognize that you have choices in how you communicate in any situation
Understand the benefits and risks of several different choices for any situation
Realize that how you communicate influences how others perceive you

9. Thank you!