INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION MATRIX

Topic: The challenges in transition to adulthood for college students.

Purpose: To inform the audience about the challenges in transition to adulthood for college
students.
Audience: College students

INTRODUCTION

Attention-Getting Sentence: Imagine this scenario, it is 5 a.m. on Saturday morning and you are
watching spongebob squarepants on an old chunky TV, your mom is telling you to sit back so
that you don’t hurt your eyes as she gives you your daily dose of warm formula milk, life is
good and you have nothing to worry about. When we were kids, everything was so easy, so
simple, and most of the time we were happy. But now, here I am giving a speech about how
difficult it is to be a young adult.

Thesis: College life and adulthood are vastly different and the transition between them are not
going to be smooth.

Sentence of Method: Ranging from high expectation of education, uncertainty of employment, to

lack of financial knowledge, college students are the next in line to transition to adulthood.

BODY
Main Ideas Supporting Ideas Examples Visual
College Education has The Higher Type: Chart
students are become a highly Education (HE) Content: Enrollment rate in
still facing high competitive area enrollments rate Indonesia
expectation of in the lives of worldwide almost Source: Statista Research
education. young people. doubled, going Department.
Academic from 19% to 38%
standards are between 2000 and
higher than ever 2018. Source:
as more people Daniele Vieira.
are expected to 2020.
pursue higher “Understanding
education each access to higher
year. Not only education in the
that, students last two decades”
must take a IESALC
variety of UNESCO.
extracurricular
activities.
Uncertainty of High education The British Type: Overhead
employment doesn’t Chambers of Content: Uncertainty of employment
haunts guarantee a Commerce’s Source: Made by presenter
everyone, position in the Workforce Survey (Prototype hasn’t been made)
including workplace. found that 88% of
 college employers
Students in
Indonesia.

CONCLUSION

Transitional Phrase + Thesis: In conclusion, those are the challenges in facing transitional phase
into adulthood for college students.

Restatement of Main Points: The challenges in transitional phase are college students are still
facing high expectations of education, uncertainty of employment, and lack of financial
knowledge.
Closer: It is important for college students to know the challenges that they are about to and will
continue to face in adulthood. Therefore, they can identify their weak link and try to improve it
for easier transition.