Basic Communication

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Basic Communication

• Chapter 6

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Communication

• Was there communication as I read the
  Jabberwocky? How did the communication come
  about?
• Were you familiar with all the words? If not, how
  did you make meaning of them?What emotions did
  you feel? Why? What influenced you?
• In the Basic Communications model, interfering
  between sender and receiver was what? What was
  the noise in the example?

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• Communication is "a shared process involving two
  or more people who interact dynamically
  effective training should be participant-centered.
  " P154

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Verbal Language

• Tone
• Pauses and silences

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Nonverbal Language

• Eye contact
• Facial Expression
• Body Language
• Touch
• Distance

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Determining If the Message Is Understood

• Evaluate verbal behaviors
• Evaluate nonverbal behaviors
• Formal and informal assessmnets

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Communicating through Writing

• Types of articles
• Reports of empirical studies
• Formal research studies and analysis

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Communicating through Writing

• Types of articles
• Review articles
• Define clarify a problem
• Summarize previous investigations
• Identify relationships, contradictions,gaps, and
  inconsistencies
• Suggest next step in solving the problem

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Communicating through Writing

• Types of articles
• Theoretical articles
• Author traces development of theory in order to
  expand and refine the theoretical construct. The
  author may present a new theory.

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Content and Organization

• Frontsmatter
• Title page
• Abstract A brief, comprehensive summary of the
  content.Should include topic, purpose,data
  source,and conclusions. Should be accurate,
  concise, self-contained, coherent, and
  nonevaluative.

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Content and Organization

• Main body of article
• Introduction / problem statement
• Review of literature
• Method
• Results
• Discussion and conclusions

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Content and Organization

• Introduction
• Introduce the problem or topic
• Develop the background
• State purpose and rationale for the work

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Content and Organization

• Review of the Literature
• What have others written on this topic?
• Do they support my topic view or not?

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Content and Organization

• Method
• Participants
• Instruments used (surveys, tests,etc.)
• Procedures

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Content and Organization

• Results
• Data analyses
• Tables and Figures
• Statistics

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Content and Organization

• Discussion
• What have I contributed?
• How does this work help solve the problem
• What conclusions and implications can I draw from
  the work, study, or product?

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Content and Organization

• Back matter
• References
• Appendices

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Dos

• Use good grammar
• Present ideas in orderly manner
• Use smooth style and transitions

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Dont

• Use jargon
• Be wordy
• Be redundant
• Use biased language(use he and she
  alternately)