assessment

My Friends Are Blind

Interpersonal Communication

Sylvia Student

Shea Brooks

November 28, 2010

My Friends Are Blind

Brief description of the process you completed for this assignment. You can summarize relevant information from the article or your What’s your face-to-face communication style. End with a thesis statement. For a great review of thesis statements, go to: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/thesis_statement.shtml

Survey Summary

Interpret and summarize your scores from your peers on the Peer Perception Survey. You want to at a minimum list some of the information that your peers have said about you. You can summarize in any manner you choose.

Analysis

Perceptions

Discuss how you perceive yourself and how others perceive you. You can compare and contrast or list similarities. Results that surprised you fit in the section below.

Perception formation

Discuss how you think these perceptions were formed. Consider the concepts you learned in the readings in your discussion.

Surprising results

Discuss what surprised you about the responses and how they are different than what you thought. This can be why you were surprised they all thought highly of you or why they had different perceptions than you expected. You can talk about whatever was surprising.

Improving Accuracy

Discuss ways you can improve the accuracy of other’s perceptions of you. You can use strategies from the book for this section.

Strategies

Self-Esteem

Discuss strategies for improving you own self-esteem. This is where you what to be sure and reference some of the strategies listed in the book. See the rubric for the appropriate strategies to include. You do not have to list all the strategies, but you must use the appropriate ones. Do not circumvent this process by saying you do not need to improve your self esteem.

Interpersonal Perception

Discuss strategies for improving interpersonal perception. You can talk about improving other people’s perceptions or your perceptions. Be sure and use the appropriate strategies from the book.

Conclusion

Give a brief summary of your paper.

References

Beebe, S. A., Beebe, S. J., & Redmond, M. V. (2011). Interpersonal communication: Relating to others (6th Ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Note: Since you are using strategies from the book, you must have in-text citations when you use that information. Avoid direct quotes.

If you do not have in-text citations there is no reason to have a reference page.