Visual Aids and the Criminal Justice System

Visual aids are encountered in many criminal justice presentations, reports, and other printed and online resources. As a criminal justice professional, useful visual aids in your presentations may help you to reach your objectives by providing emphasis on important points. Clear pictures and graphs can enhance the audience’s level of understanding of the material presented.

Conversely, poor visuals might be counterproductive by adding confusion—instead of clarification—to the resource. The assigned readings for the week cover a number of tips for creating effective visual aids and graphs.

For this Discussion, reflect on the various types of visual aids that can be used to help convey complex information in a way that increases comprehension by the audience. Also, consider key ways to create effective visual aids. Select any two resources (e.g., books, journal articles and/or websites) that depict criminal justice data with visual aids.

With these thoughts in mind

Post by Day 1 a brief description of the resources you selected and the information and type of visual aid presented in the resources. Then explain whether the visual aids were effective or ineffective in communicating the information and why.

Readings

• Holzl, J. (1997). Twelve tips for effective PowerPoint presentations for the technologically challenged. Medical Teacher, 19(3), 175–179.
• Piltch, C., & Terry, K.J. (2011). Visual aids in oral and written presentations. In A short guide to writing about criminal justice (113–126). Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall.
  Piltch, Charles; Terry, Karen J., Short Guide to Writing About Criminal Justice, A, 1st Edition, (C) 2011. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ.

• Krieger, S. (2011). 12 tips for creating better PowerPoint presentations. Microsoft at Work. Retrieved from http//www.microsoft.com/business/en-nz/Content/Pa…

Media

• Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Two student presentations. Baltimore Author.

One and a half page with at least two reference….

It is important that you cover all the topics identified in the assignment. Covering the topic does not mean mentioning the topic BUT presenting an explanation from the context of ethics and the readings for this class

To get maximum points you need to follow the requirements listed for this assignments 1) look at the page limits 2) review and follow APA rules 3) create subheadings to identify the key sections you are presenting and 4) Free from typographical and sentence construction errors.

REMEMBER IN APA FORMAT JOURNAL TITLES AND VOLUME NUMBERS ARE ITALICIZED.

MULTIPLE USE OF INTEXT CITATION

MAKE SURE YOU USE THE TRANSCRIPT BELOW WHICH IS THE MEDIA

TRANSCRIPT

“Two Student Presentations”

RITA U. LISTENING Good afternoon. I am Rita U. Listening, and I’m pleased to welcome you to my presentation on the benefits of good speech communication. I am going to address three topics today. First, reasons for a lack of public speaking ability among people. Second, some research evidence for the importance of speaking ability. And third, provide you with some examples of great speakers in history and how their speaking ability led to their success.

Effective public speaking is a critical skill in the 21st century. Today, people rely on electronic communication and rarely communicate face to face. Someone once said that more people are afraid of public speaking than they are of dying. This fear and lack of understanding of the importance of good speech communication has led to a world where few people acquire this critical skill.

Fortunately, there are many role models throughout history to guide in our development of excellent public speaking skills. Each of these individuals demonstrated the power of speech in achieving their goals and in many cases change in the direction of a country or society. The first example is Demosthenes, a Greek orator who lived in the 4th century BC. He used his powers of argument to motivate his fellow citizens and resisting conquering forces. Sir Winston Churchill is perhaps best known as Britain’s prime minister during World War II. He kept his country informed and hopeful during the darkest days of the war. Abraham Lincoln was a pivotal figure in US history, known for his Gettysburg address. In under three minutes Lincoln captured the spirit of a young democracy emerging from civil war. Chief Joseph was the leader of a Nez Perce tribe in the late 1800s and spoke eloquently against the injustices of the US government towards his people. Finally, Martin Luther King Jr. has been acknowledged as one of the modern world’s greatest orators. His I have a dream speech continues to inspire our progress towards equality and freedom. Thank you for your attention to this presentation. Does anyone have any questions?

IAN M. ARTICULATE Hi. I’m Ian. Hi. I’m Ian M. Articulate, and I’m here to tell you about the benefits of good speech communication.

I did a lot of research and came up with really important information to share with you today. I want to tell you about some major reasons why anyone would want to learn to speak well, which is a really important idea because so many people are totally afraid of public speaking. But it’s not hard, and really anyone can do it if they practice. Then I found a great survey, which will tell them or tell you why it’s important to become a good public speaker or even just someone who can speak well when they’re at a party or something. So we’ll look at all this evidence, and then I’ll finish up the presentation. There are a bunch of reasons why someone would want to learn to speak well. These are professional credibility. It’s a requirement for some positions, for opportunities for promotion and advancement, and to reduce anxiety in professional and social settings. For example, if you can’t speak well you really have no professional credibility. No one will believe what you’re saying. If you want a job where you have to speak or give presentations a lot, you’re not likely to get it. For example, if you wanted to be a salesperson in marketing or advertising, a television reporter, or even a college teacher, you are required to speak well if you want to get promoted. If you want to be a director or chief executive, you can’t really avoid making presentations to the board, or stockholders, or these kinds of people. And not only is good speaking ability important at work, but it can be really good if you are often nervous or anxious around other people, like at meetings or get-togethers or parties.

This was a really interesting survey that showed how important it is to learn to speak well. The researchers talked to many people, like probably over a hundred, I think, and asked them whether they thought it was important to learn to speak well. They asked them four questions. Do you need to know how to speak well to keep your job, get promoted, start a new career, or do well in school? The people said whether they disagreed, agreed, or strongly agreed. You can see that almost everyone either agreed or strongly agreed that good public speaking ability is really important for all of these things.

So I’m actually almost out of time, and I can tell you a lot more, but I do need to wrap it up. In conclusion, as they say, effective speaking is really important in work and in everyday life. And researchers, and research evidence shows that most people would benefit from improving their speaking ability. I included my reference there at the bottom so you can see where I got my data. I hope that you all enjoyed this presentation and use it as motivation to go out and learn to speak better. You will not regret it. It’s such an important thing. So does anybody have any questions?