Workplace Bullying History

For this project we worked on almost all aspects of it together. Since we both have extremely tight schedules, we were able to accomplish this by using google documents. The work that we did together included both flyers, the interactive tests, the entire powerpoint presentation, searching for a video, the peer review, and the annotated bibliography. We did a couple of things separately, which included individual research for the project, and countless revision sessions. We did these parts separately so that we were able to form our own opinions on our genre attempts, and gather more information faster from sources we found individually.

Scenario/Background/Situation for the Project (two or three sentences should be enough):

What’s the

name of the conference; which kind(s) of professionals would be attending; what’s the kind of organization or business involved; and so on?

The name of the conference that we are holding is The History of Workplace Bullying: A Workshop.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide an in depth history on the topic of workplace bullying. The type of professionals in attendance would include anyone who would want to receive in depth information on the history of workplace bullying.

This Genre-Attempt’s (or Attempts’) Rhetorical Situation & Possible Trajectory (or Arc): For each document/G-A, deal with the writer’s purpose, the most appropriate targeted readers) (or audience—probably not me since I’m just the assessor-reader), and trajectory—the snowball-effect or ramifications in the future or beyond your immediate space. Re trajectory, ask yourself what the positive—or even negative—outcomes of any individual document might be; when discussing trajectory, use the term!

We attempted five different genres for this project which included two flyers, a pretest, presentation slides, and a post test.

We used the first flyer to spread the word about our presentation, and it focused on providing information on the location and purpose of our workshop. It included details such as the title of our workshop, the date and time, the location, and the names of the presenters. We took a simplistic approach to spare the audience’s eyes from too many distracting colors or pictures, but still managed to capture the audience’s

attention.
The next genre we attempted was the pretest. The pretest was difficult because we had to come up with questions that people would have the ability to answer without any prior knowledge on the subject. We wanted to be able to interact with the audience to keep every member attentive, while also maintaining an informative tone. In order to find questions that matched our criteria, we found relevant information in all of our sources. We were able to plan for a lot of audience interaction with multiple choice questions, while also being able to provide important facts that outlined our presentation. The pretest’s purpose is to give a brief overview of what we will be discussing, and to have audience participation right from the start.
Next, we began working on our PowerPoint presentation slides.

We included four dense, informative slides in our presentation. We discussed the global background of the topic, and shifted towards the Workplace Bullying Institute in the United States. These were extremely important to the presentation because they provided the bulk of the information. We used information that we pulled from all of our sources to come up with bullet points to put on the slides that will be elaborated on in the actual presentation. The purpose of the slides was to provide the audience with relevant information on the topic, while keeping the text on the slides at a minimum so we would not bore the audience with

words.
We later then began working on the posttest. The posttest was extremely helpful because it gathered the most important information provided in our presentation and tied it all together with another small set of five multiple choice questions. The five questions can all be answered by paying attention to the presentation. Unlike the pretest, one needs to be paying attention to be able to answer these questions. The posttest’s purpose was to wrap up the workshop by highlighting the most important facts given in our presentation, while also leaving a good impression on the audience by letting them interact with us one last time.
The last thing we worked on was the second informative flyer. We wanted to use this flyer to encourage the audience to do even more research on their own, since there is only so much we can cover in an 8-10 minute presentation. We included a picture of Gary Namie, and references to his book and the Workplace Bullying Website.