English Discussion Questions 1

Topic -- Plagiarism: Diagnosis and Prevention Ethical communication in business and elsewhere includes giving proper credit to the work of others. In both workplace and academic settings, plagiarism (representing the words, ideas, or perspectives of others as your own) is a serious breach of ethics. In this discussion thread, you should provide your classmates with useful techniques for preventing and detecting plagiarism. Begin your commentary by providing a clear and specific one-paragraph definition of plagiarism as an unacceptable technique for professional writing as it applies to your major field of study and your present or intended career path. In your definition, provide a documented source for your definition, using the MLA, APA, or Chicago Manual of Style format. Then you should follow that definition with at least two or three techniques that writers can use to detect and prevent plagiarism, and therefore make their writing less risky to themselves and their employers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic -- Communication : Post a discussion in which you provide your commentary, applying the guidelines on , on the WORTH of communications, especially human communications, in today's business environment, and the COST of workplace communications problems. Discuss these issues as they are related to today’s private sector, government (military and civilian), and non-profit workplaces. Provide support from your readings in the text, your own experience, and your research and readings elsewhere, including the Web. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Respond to this post, give feedback from one of the following areas : You should disagree with or take an opposite position to the response. You should determine that the fellow student’s response reveals errors in thinking or understanding the readings or concepts. You believe that you can enhance the student’s response by taking the discussion farther to show insights into the concepts or application of the concepts. You have determined that the student response needs to have the ideas synthesized or evaluated for better understanding. No one has yet to respond to this particular student primary response. Communication is one of the main things companies harp on when interviewing for a position. Good communication and save the company a lot of money and time while bad communication can cost the company a lot of money and even a lot more time wasted. Communication is a wonderful tool to all companies. Being open to listen to all ideas can bring a good flow of energy. As an employee you want to feel safe that all your thoughts, feelings and ideas can be fully expressed. A study on Glassdoor showed the best quality at the annual list of best places to work and communication was the quality. (Kienzler, 2015) Good communication is good because it saves time for the company and you and also saves money for the company, which keeps you, and other people employed. If or someone keeps making the same mistakes and doesn’t listen to the instructions then the employees have to stop what they are doing to take time to fix the mistakes. That prolongs moving forward and making money for the company and then cost them extra because they now have to pay their employees for the extra time they had to spend fixing it instead of moving on to the next project. The more money that cost the company, the greater the likely hood of getting fired. Team members must make sure they work together can communicate with each other because that then saves them time from doing extra work. If someone gets fired that means the others have to pick up the slack until they find someone new, then they have to train that person on how to do the job. Communication isn’t just verbal, it can also be non-verbal. When one employee is talking to other and the employee that should be listening is looking away and doing other things, it’s a good chance that, that employee didn’t hear anything. You could be greeting a customer but if you say it monotone and roll your eyes the customer knows you do not care about them. Being in the Military I worked in the hospital as a med tech in the clinical section. There would be two techs that would be assigned to the doctor. There will be times that those two techs would like leave at the same time when the doctor would have patients so that means someone else would have to cover for them. They would not communicate with each other or the other techs to coordinate their leave around one another so other techs had to pick up their slack which put more pressure on everyone because we were already short handed. Not only was it a pain to cover for them all the time but it caused extra tension with them because they kept doing it, and they were higher ranks so there was nothing to be done with them. Communication is a huge part of working with other people. You have to be open to accept what ever is being said to help the company and the fellow employees. Doing so can save a lot of time and effort.