Final Portfolio Assignment

WEEK 2 DISCUSSION

The important of positive messaging, to me, is to not offend the audience or make them feel outskated. According to Kaczmarek and Locker, “positive emphasis is a way of looking at things” (p. 102), in other words, you do not want to be offensive when making your delivery. You want to always be mindful and be careful with your words. When it comes to conveying positive messages about myself in communications, I like to include the audience and make my message I want to get across more “real”. I like to not use words that are negative, and use better phrases; for example, in unit two, “haven’t finished” instead use “will be finished. To assist with the continuing of be communicating positively, the tactic I use is readback. I readback aloud what I am about to deliver and try to place myself in the audience shoes. I attempt to empathize how they feel while listening to what I am saying.

 

            The artifact I chose was “Smokey the Bear”. My purpose of this artifact is to educate about fires and fire safety. The audience is intended to be children and adults. As far as the more pertinent information displayed was the prevention of wildfires. This is key to alleviate the fires in the first place. The information alone benefits the perceived audience in that it educates on prevention but also that all fires are not all bad. Nature has its own way of controlling its own destiny. Someone might object to the burning in the backyard due to the audience may possibly feeling like they can do what they what in their own backyards. Regardless of laws. Lastly, the context of this communication are safety, education of prevention and science of fires, and history on the topics of fires.

 

 

 

Kaczmarek, S, K., & Locker, K, O. (2013). Business Communication: Building critical skills. McGraw-Hill Education.