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Ms. Cooper, 7th Grade RELA
Informational Text Unit
Email your finished executive summary PowerPoint to erin.cooper@pgcps.org by Tuesday, April 5, 2010.

In your Executive Summary Powerpoint Presentation, you will have a total of at least 11 slides, each corresponding to a specific category. In this packet, I have included the requirements for each category, instructions on how to do the data in Excel and a rubric. The categories are as follows:
1. Title Page
Here you should have:
è a title of your presentation (Ex: “Animal Abuse”, “Improving Student Achievement”)
è the basic argument
è your name, subject area, date, class mod
q This can take up space for more than one slide, but no more than two of your slides.

2. Introduction : The Problem
q This is the position statement/argument you wrote, then revised. All you need to do is simply place it here.

3. History/Background
q These are the facts (facts that both support your position and refute your opponents or critic’s position)
q General: at least 3 Facts total, with 1 fact that refutes opponents
q Honors: at least 5 Facts total, with 2 facts that refute opponents

4. Effects of the Problem
q This is the affect your problem (school dress code, unhealthy cafeteria food, toxic chemicals, a four-day school week) has on the people who care about the issue aka your target survey audience.
Problem: Target Survey Audience
School dress code: students
Unhealthy cafeteria food: students and staff who eat the food
Toxic chemicals in toys: children and parents
Four-day work week: students, teachers, staff

q General: at least 3 Effects
q Honors: at least 5 Effects

5. Survey Research Conditions
q How many people you surveyed
q Describing the question types you used (open and closed)
q Explicitly describing the types of closed questions used
6. Survey Research Results
q Briefly explain the conclusions (patterns you observed) you drew from the data you collected.
q Be sure that your conclusions support the main points of your argument.
q Ask yourself: What did the majority of people who responded to my survey agree on? What were some of their reasons? The answers to those questions are your conclusions.
q General: at least 2 Research Results
q Honors: at least 3 Research Results

7. Survey Research Data
q Your plotted data from Excel. Be sure to choose the most important data set, meaning the most important question(s) that people responded to in your survey.
q General: at least 1 data chart, but no more than 3
q Honors: at least 2 data charts, but no more than 3

8. Recommendations
q Your solutions to the problem.
q General: at least 3 recommendations
q Honors: at least 4 recommendations

9. Desired Outcomes
q What you would like to happen as a result of YOUR solution being implemented.
q General: at least 3 desired outcomes
q Honors: at least 4 four desired outcomes

10. Conclusion
q A general statement that firmly restates your main idea and incorporates your findings. You can restate data that you mentioned, but mainly this is a summary of your overall presentation.
q No more than 3 to 5 sentences in length
q Be sure that your writing voice is clear. It should not be stuffy and boring. Keep it fresh!

11. References
q All sources used in gathering your logos (factual support)
q MLA Style or what you copied into your notebook from the LOL
q www.aresearchguide.com/10works.html
q www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm