Professional Communication Skills HAB 2033 Nor ubaidiha Binti Mohd Hasan 12410 Civil Engineering Technical Presentation Outline Task Sheet Title of Presentation 1. Is it a technical topic? Justify For this presentation I chose wastewater treatment process and the importance. Wastewater treatment process is a technical topic because this topic is a part of my core subject as civil engineering student. Audience 1. How did you determine the knowledge level of your audience? I determined the knowledge of the audience by the background field of studies of the audience. As in UTP the audience are all from engineering or information technology background as well as business study. 2. How did this information influence your presentation? This information influence my presentation such as I will deliver information that are related to the audience background study. 3. How do you plan to gain the audiences attention? I also will stress about the importance of the wastewater treatment process that is an essential process to produce clean water before it will be discharge to the river. I also will try to use visual aids and supporting data to make the audience can get the clearer view about this topic.

Presentation 1. Introduction What is the purpose and importance of choosing this topic? The purpose of this topic is to give information and elaboration on how the wastewater treatment process is done according to the proper steps and stages. The importance of choosing this topic is to expose the wastewater treatment process to the audience. In this class, most of the audience are not from civil engineering course, then I want to try to share my knowledge about this topic to the audience. The wastewater treatment process is the continuing process but many of us did not bother on how the process is done. Without this wastewater treatment process, we as consumers cannot get the clean water from river. The river also will be polluted if the wastewater is discharged to the river without proper wastewater treatment. How is the topic relevant to the audience? Water is the most fundamental building block of life. Most of us are fortunate to be living in a place where water is literally at our fingertips. Wastewater is used water that is deposited into drains by residents and businesses. Flushing the toilet, taking a shower, and running the washing machine are all examples of everyday activities that produce wastewater. This wastewater drains down the sink or toilet and travels through a network of underground pipes known as the sanitary sewer system.

What do you expect the audience to learn from the presentation (objectives)? The audience will get the clearer view on how the wastewater treatment process is done. The audience also will learn why wastewater treatment process is important.

What is your thesis statement? Wastewater treatment process is an essential process and it is important for mankind to get clean water for the sake of our health and our life.

List the main points that will support your thesis statement. The stages involve in wastewater treatment process. i. Collection

Preliminary treatment Primary treatment Secondary treatment Tertiary treatment / Disinfection The importance of wastewater treatment process. How are you establishing credibility? I establishing my credibility by revision of literal sources this topic that I have taken in water and wastewater engineering subject last semester. I also try to review the books, assignments, charts that were used before. Furthermore, I have knowledge about this topic that I gain not only by surfing on the net but using other proven materials.

2. Body Which organizational pattern are you using? Justify your choice. In my presentation I use the chronological sequences to explain the process of wastewater treatment. I will use logical sequence idea to express on importance and benefits of wastewater treatment. List the supporting ideas for each main point. The stages involve in wastewater treatment process. i. ii. Collection the wastewater from domestic are collect through the sewerage pipes. Preliminary treatment - the first treatment process, consists of the removal of substances that may interfere with the downstream processes or be detrimental to the plant equipment. iii. Primary treatment - the wastewater enters two primary clarifiers (sedimentation basins) which remove suspended and floating material. iv. Secondary treatment - consists of two steps which remove the dissolved and colloidal organic material not removed by the primary treatment using a conventional activated sludge process. v. Tertiary treatment / Disinfection - is used to destroy pathogenic (disease-producing) organisms that is is accomplished by UV disinfection. The importance of wastewater treatment process. i. ii. Eliminating the discharge of pollutants Obtaining water quality which provides for recreation in and on the water.

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Domestic water treatment removes physical, chemical and biological contaminants from wastewater.

How do you ensure that there is coherent transition from one main point to the next main point? After each main point I will again sum up the content of the point then I will make interchange from the previous point to the next point. The coherent transition is from the chronological sequence that is involve the step by step process. The process cannot be overlap with each other.

Describe how you are going to summarize after each main point. After each main point I will stress the important content or keyword about each point.

3. Conclusion Describe how you are going to summarize the entire presentation. First of all I will tell the audience means I will give brief ideas bout this topic. Then I will tell the audience what I want to tell them such as explain the content in more details with the elaboration. And finally I tell them what I have told them in a way that I summarize my presentation. Describe how you are going to reiterate the purpose and importance of the whole presentation to relate to your audience. I will ask the audience to think what will happen if the wastewater treatment process is not properly done. Question and Answer Session 1. List some of the questions that you anticipate from the audience. i. ii. iii. What are the parameters involve in wastewater treatment process. The benefits of wastewater treatment process to the mankind. What is the chemical substances used in disinfection step.

Practice Session 1. How did you practice your speech? I practice my speech sometimes alone with myself and sometimes in front of the mirror in a way to see the gestures. I always practice in my room when I have free time. I try to practice as many times as I can to make improvement and reduce errors. 2. Which area of your speech needed improvement? The style of delivery. My delivery parts need to have more content than in my slides. 3. Did you stay within the time limit? When I practice my speech, I have set the stopwatch then I can manage to finish the entire presentation in almost about seven minutes. In spite the other three minutes are for question and answer session. Then sum up seven and three minutes, I have totally ten minutes. References i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. Wastewater Engineering Treatment and Reuse Metcalf & Eddy. http://www.ordainternational.org/pages/water.html http://www.ci.gillette.wy.us/util/StonepileSelectCompost.pdf http://www.regulatorystaff.sc.gov/ http://ezinearticles.com/?Importance-of-Wastewater-Treatment&id=734605 http://www.wateronline.com/article.mvc/The-Importance-Of-MaintainingWastewater-Qual-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO http://books.google.com.my/books? id=Ja4AxcKIvQUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=treatment+of+clean+water+in+the +river+to+supply+domestic&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1#v=onepage&q =&f=false