Writing · 14 min

Open with the recommendation

This task is about the order of a business presentation. One side opens with history. The other puts the recommendation in the first minute. Choose, then show what the room does with the time you saved or spent. An example needs a meeting, a clock time, and a decision that did or did not get made.

Should an internal presentation start with the recommendation, or with the history? Pick one. Do not stop at on the other hand.

Professor

Some people say a presentation should open with the history so the room understands the background. Others say the recommendation belongs in the first minute. What is your position?

Priya

History first. If I hear the recommendation before the story, I do not trust it. The room needs the path.

Owen

Recommendation first. Last month a twenty-minute history ended before the decision, and Dallas left without a date.

14:00

0 words. Aim for 100 or more.

The draft stays on this device.

Before you check the quiz

  • A stranger can quote your position from the first sentence.
  • You answered one of the students with a fact they did not use.
  • The example has a time and a result.
  • You are at or above 100 words.

Did the task do this?

1. PositionWhich opening is a real position?
2. DevelopmentYou have 80 words and a clear side. What should you add?
3. LanguageWhich line is good English?
4. ShapeWhich example shows what the room did with the time?
5. LanguageWhich line is good English?

Answer every question, then check.