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The rapidly growing criminal justice field is full of possibilities for those with an online degree. Want to help protect our shorelines from threats? Consider a job with the U.S. Coast Guard. You’ll patrol the shores making sure no illegal immigrants, drugs or weapons get in. You’ll also help save the lives of stranded boaters as well as respond to environmental disasters like oil spills. Every day will be an adventure.

Prone to seasickness? Then maybe a job with the ATF is for you. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives makes sure that Americans are obeying the laws surrounding the sale and purchase of those items. You’ll need to know a lot about those laws and how to enforce them, so your criminal justice degree will certainly come in handy with this career.

If you always win at hide-and-seek, then maybe a career as a private investigator is for you. You’ll be hired to investigate anything from cheating spouses to high-profile celebrities suspected of fudging their taxes. This job will change constantly and you never know what you’ll be asked to do next, so flexibility is key. You’ll also need to be extremely discreet.

Whatever career you choose, your online criminal justice degree will take you far!

Handouts are useful when your subject is complex, your message contains a lot of statistical information, or you need to introduce new vocabulary. When the speech is concluded, your listeners have your handout to remind them of your message.
There is one serious drawback to using handouts: They can distract listeners from what you are saying. If you distribute a handout before your speech, it will compete with you for attention. The audience may decide to read the handout instead of listening to you. Therefore, you should distribute handouts before your speech only when it is necessary for listeners to refer to them as you speak and you are confident of your ability to command attention. Never distribute handouts during your speech; this is a sure-fire way to divert, confuse, and lose listeners.
Dwight Davidson distributed a handout at the beginning of his speech entitled “Job Trends in the Twenty-first Century.” Dwight’s audience was able to follow him as he explained the statistical tables in the handout. Without such a visual supplement, his listeners would have been lost. George Stacey distributed a handout listing the steps involved in CPR after he ended his presentation. By waiting until he was finished, he avoided distracting listeners during his speech but still helped his audience remember the process. Your decision whether to distribute a handout before or after a speech must be based on the nature of the subject, how confident you are of your ability to control attention, and how you want your handout to function.

Sketches. Sketches are simplified representations of what you are talking about. If you don’t draw well, check out children’s coloring books for line drawings of objects that you can trace. Make the sketch first on paper, then enlarge it or transfer it onto a transparency with a copier. Mark Peterson used a sketch on an overhead transparency to illustrate a speech on buying a bicycle. As he talked about making bar-to-pedal and seat-to-handlebar measurements, he said, “Let me show you how to take some basic measurements.” When he finished his demonstration, he turned off the projector so that
would not be a distraction during the rest of his speech.

Graphics include sketches, maps, graphs, charts, and textual materials. Graphics used in speeches may differ from graphics designed for the print media. Because graphics will be displayed for only a short time as you present a speech, they must be immediately understandable.9 They must be simpler than graphics designed for print, which readers can study at their leisure. Each graphic should focus on one idea. Because presentation aids will be viewed from a distance, the colors should be intense and should contrast sharply with the background and with each other. The audience should be able to read any print without straining. We will cover such considerations more fully in our section on “Preparing Presentation Aids” later in this chapter.