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Week 2 communication notebook/Instructions
This week, you have three options for your exercise. When you have finished the write-up, add it to your notebook and complete the one-question check-in quiz. You must submit the quiz by Day 7 (Monday) of class to earn credit for doing this exercise.
Option 1: Conversation management and the four “C”s
Review the themes covered in section 7.2 of Bevan. Then, go have a conversation with someone. Ask them for permission to record it. As you replay it, answer the following questions:
1. How did you or the other party convey confidence, creativity, caring, or consideration?
2. How did the conversation allow you build or sustain what Bevan calls “rapport?”
3. What did you note about open-ended questions, turn-taking, and mirroring?
Option 2: Assisting Others
When was the last time someone provided you with social support or you provided others with support? What were the circumstances? Which type(s) of social support did they use (action-facilitating, nurturing, emotional, instrumental, informational)? Was it appropriate for the situation? Try to list both nonverbal or verbal cues that were used when giving the support.
Option 3: Relationship Maintenance
1. Take a moment to evaluate one of your own relationships or the relationship of someone close to you.
2. What types of positive relationship maintenance behaviors related to communication outlined in chapter 8 in Bevan are used in this close relationship?
3. What different communication techniques are used in different types of relationships?
When you are done, be sure to add this to your “Communication Notebook.” Here, you only have to complete the first halves of each question. For the week 5 final paper, you will need to complete the second halves as well. So, be sure to complete the entire assignment.
This is the form you will use to record all of your weekly exercise notes. In weeks 1, 2, 4 and 5 you will update this document with the new exercise you complete. You only have to answer three questions, through week 4. Then, in week 5, you will be required to complete questions two for each week’s exercise. You will be required to use Bevan, one course reading from the required or recommended list, and TWO course videos. See the resources box for the week 5 paper instructions for a list of videos, but you can use any from class. They should all be listed in a reference list at the end of this document and they should all comply with APA style guidelines.
Week 1: Channels of Communication
Step 1 - Describe the findings. (100 to 150 words) – Only this part is due at the end of week 1
a) How much time did each exchange take (roughly)? (1 to 2 sentences)
b) How well were the questions answered via phone or video chat? (1 to 2 sentences)
c) How well were the questions answered via email, messenger, or phone texting? (1 to 2 sentences)
d) How close did you feel to the person in the phone or video chat exchange? (1 to 2 sentences)
e) How close did you feel to the person in email, messenger, or phone texting exchange? (1 to 2 sentences)
f) Which interaction was most satisfying and why? (1 to 2 sentences)
Step 2 - Apply what you have learned during this class, especially the basic principles of effective communication, ideas of the self, or culture, to your exercise results, citing at least two course resources to support you and one can be a video. (This must be 200 to 250 words.) Due week 5.
Week 2: Please list your exercise: ___________________________
Option 3: Stereotypes
As we have learned in Bevan, we use perceptual schemas to make sense of the world around us. These are central to communication, as they involve perception (taking in information into our minds through observing verbal and nonverbal cues), classification (putting information into categorical boxes in our minds), and then assigning meaning to those classifications, which are typically positive or negative. In this option, you will explore a broad category of schemas called “stereotypes.” To complete the task, do the following, using and citing Bevan as much as possible:
· Define stereotypes, utilizing Bevan.
· Explain how stereotypes are useful tools we use to make sense of the world and make choices.
· Identify three common stereotypes and write a sentence that draws on them.
· Explore why each stereotypical sentence can be destructive.
· List some steps we can take to mitigate the negative impacts of stereotypes
Step 1 - Describe the findings. (100 to 150 words) – Due week 2
Step 2 - Apply what you have learned during this class, especially the basic principles of effective communication, ideas of the self, or culture, to your exercise results, using and citing at least two course resources to support you and one can be a video. (This must be 200 to 250 words.) Due week 5.
Week 4:
Please list your exercise: ___________________________
Step 1 - Describe the findings. (100 to 150 words) – Due week 4
Step 2 - Apply what you have learned during this class, especially the basic principles of effective communication, ideas of the self, or culture, to your exercise results, using and citing at least two course resources to support you and one can be a video. (This must be 200 to 250 words.) Due week 5.
Week 5:
Please list your exercise: ___________________________
Step 1 - Describe the findings. (100 to 150 words) – Due week 5
Step 2 - Apply what you have learned during this class, especially the basic principles of effective communication, ideas of the self, or culture, to your exercise results, using and citing at least two course resources to support you and one can be a video. (This must be 200 to 250 words.) Due week 5.