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ENG 400/401 Oral Presentation Criteria

Language (Grammar & Vocabulary)


The presenter/ presentation has excellent control and use of grammatical structures an excellent range and use of vocabulary minor inaccuracies with minimal impact on communication The presenter/ presentation has good control and use of grammatical structures a good range and use of vocabulary some noticeable inaccuracies but minimal impact on communication The presenter/ presentation has adequate control and use of grammatical structures an adequate range and use of vocabulary some noticeable inaccuracies which may affect communication at times The presenter/ presentation has limited use of grammatical structures a limited range and use of vocabulary inaccuracies which are frequent and regularly impede communication The presenter/ presentation has poor control and use of grammatical structures an inadequate range and use of vocabulary inaccuracies which seriously impede communication

Delivery
The presenter is highly professional and formal throughout always considers audience needs has fluid, natural speech and pace which is a pleasure to listen to makes effective and continuous eye-contact has highly effective body language

Content
The presentation is creative, coherent, focused and fully developed is completely valid in terms of task demands and realworld applications shows excellent audience awareness; is pitched at the right level skillfully incorporates research accurately follows an accepted referencing style for content, works cited, and visuals The presentation is for the most part creative, coherent, focused and well-developed is mostly valid in terms of task demands and realworld applications shows good audience awareness; is pitched at the right level incorporates research well accurately follows an accepted referencing style for content, works cited and visuals with minor errors The presentation is quite creative, coherent, focused and developed generally meets task demands and is mostly based on real-world applications content is unable to meet audience needs at times satisfactorily incorporates research follows an accepted referencing style for content, works cited, and visuals with some errors The presentation lacks creativity, coherence, focus or development fails at times to meet task demands and is not focused on real-world applications content often fails to meet audience needs is poorly researched, or has research which is poorly incorporated has serious errors/omissions in referencing content, works cited, and visuals The presentation is uncreative, incoherent, unfocused or poorly developed fails to meet task demands / does not focus on realworld applications content fails to meet audience needs is not researched, or has research which is wrongly incorporated fails to follow accepted referencing styles for content, works cited, and visuals

Organization
The presenter/presentation has a consistently logical sequence of information/ideas makes skillful use of transitions/ connectors is well staged and timed skillfully maintains audience interest

Visuals
Presentation visuals skillfully support and illustrate content are highly relevant and useful meet conventions regarding amount, size and clarity of information Presentation visuals generally support and illustrate content are mostly relevant and useful generally meet conventions regarding amount, size and clarity of information

Excellent 90-100

The presenter is generally professional and formal mostly considers audience needs typically has fluid, natural speech and pace which is easy to follow usually has good eye-contact has appropriate body language

The presenter/presentation has a mostly logical sequence of information/ideas makes good use of transitions/ connectors is generally well staged and timed generally maintains audience interest

Good 78-89

The presenter may be unprofessional or informal at times forgets/misgauges audience needs at times has fluid speech and pace but sometimes causes minor problems for the audience has moderate eye-contact; some reliance on notes/slides has some inappropriate body language The presenter is generally unprofessional or informal has not really considered audience needs lacks fluid, natural speech and pace, causing strain and confusion for the audience lacks effective eye-contact; over-reliance on notes/slides has inappropriate body language The presenter has an unprofessional or informal attitude displays no concept of audience needs lacks fluid, natural speech and pace , causing considerable strain & confusion for the audience makes no effort to establish eye-contact; fully dependent on notes/slides has inappropriate body language which negatively affects the audience

The presenter/presentation has a sequence of information/ideas which may cause confusion at times makes some use of transitions/ connectors has some problems with staging / timing maintains audience interest with some problems The presenter/ presentation has information/ideas which are loosely connected and cause confusion lacks clear transitions/connectors has regular problems with staging/ timing fails to maintain audience interest

The presenter/ presentation has information/ideas which are poorly connected and cause frequent confusion; no logical order no transitions/connectors; is choppy and disjointed has serious problems with staging/ timing does not generate audience interest

Presentation visuals basically support and illustrate content may at times be irrelevant or unuseful adequately meet conventions regarding amount, size and clarity of information Presentation visuals do not adequately support or illustrate content are often irrelevant or unuseful do not adequately meet conventions regarding amount, size and clarity of information Presentation visuals fail to support and illustrate content are irrelevant or unuseful fail to meet conventions regarding amount, size and clarity of information

Poor 0-58

Limited 59-69

Satisfactory 70-77

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