1. Agenda Wrap up and review Final self-assessment Housekeeping details
Course evaluations

2. Wrap up and review Review of course goals Review of course concepts
Key take-aways

3. End-of-term review: 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

4. Final self-assessment
Pre-writing:
Review the documents from this semester and from your portfolio from last year
Think about your initial goals and your mid-term goals for business communication
What to write:
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

5. Final “housekeeping” details
Grades will be posted on CourseTools by 5 p.m. December 19
Final materials will be put in your mail folders by December 22
My U-M will remain the same

6. Why your final grade might be a surprise
The final proposal and presentation is worth 60 points
The section assignment is worth 30 points
That’s 90 out of 340 points (over 25%) that you do not yet know
Also, you do not know how anyone else will do on these things

7. Final thoughts 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

8. Thank you!