Category: Communication

State a topic you find interesting. Find an internet article related to that topic and link it up here. Complete the “Evaluating Internet Documents” checklist and summarize the results here. Would you consider this source credible or not? Why do you say so? For responses, classmates, consider offering ideas of where credible information on the topic could be found.

Chapter 10 lists seven ways that speakers can get attention. There are others that are not listed (be creative!). Explain what you think is a particularly effective way to get attention (from either the book or your own observations/experiences). Why do you think that this is a particularly effective way to get attention? When might this chosen method be particularly appropriate? When might it not? How are you thinking about arousing the audience’s attention for your speeches in this class?

Find 5 peer reviewed articles about your capstone project. Write a literature review.
Please follow the assignment rubric
A literature review is not an annotated bibliography in which you summarize briefly each article that you have reviewed. While a summary of what you have read is contained within the literature review, it goes well beyond merely summarizing professional literature.
It focuses on a specific topic of interest and includes your critical analysis of the relationship among different works, and relating this research to your work.
In this case, your work will be your capstone project.
It may be written as a stand-alone paper or to provide a theoretical framework and rationale for a research study (such as a thesis or dissertation).
Your literature review will be written as a standalone paper.

Think you your chosen career. How will informative and/or demonstrative speaking be used in your career? What skills from the chapter can you see relating directly to the types of informative speaking you will do or face in your chosen career?

Individual Article Analysis Instructions.
Find an article on line or in a magazine that relates to a text, course topic. Articles about your topic might be found online via Google or Bing, etc. searches. Or in magazines related to human resources, psychology, business management, etc. Most of which can also be found on-line.
Discuss how the article relates to relevant supporting material from the text, include what the text says, how it supports the article or doesn’t. In other words, how the article supports, contradicts, and/or furthers the text material related to the topic.
Make a specific conclusion about what the article means. Meaning, what is your opinion of the article’s point? In other words, is the article’s point or exploring of a technique likely to make managing employees or organization more effective and why? Then, consider an alternative view. If it’s a negative article, what positive uses/benefits could there be that the article didn’t considered? Conversely, if a positive article, or basically a review of text topic or management technique, what are the potential risks, possible failures, to be aware of? In other words, what are the pro and con implications to a manager, or expert in organizational behavior? The paper should not be more than 4 pages long double spaced. Start it with a synopsis of the article, no more than a page. It should summarize the article so that anyone reading your paper, including myself, can understand what the article was about related to a text, course topic. Then complete the paper by following the instructions above.

Look over the different types of visual aids explained in the chapter. Which one(s) do you think you will use the most in your career? Why do you say so? Which one(s) do you think you will use the most in this class? How will the mediated nature of our course affect the visuals that you choose and/or how you choose to use them?

Create the outline based on the file attached. Preferably something in the medical field or related to dance

There are several poor listening habits/causes of poor listening explained in chapter 3 of our book and on the listening chapter powerpoint. Which poor listening behaviors do you find yourself falling into the most often? Provide an example to show how this poor listening behavior has affected you in some way. What steps can you take to work on improving this poor listening behavior?

Explain your chosen career field. How will you use be able to use the skills learned in this class in your chosen career field? What are the professional benefits you see from taking a class like this?
For writing purposes, I am a fulltime registered vascular ultrasound technician working in a hospital. I see 8-14 patients a day for many different exams. Attached are the chapters for this discussion.

I have attached a word document. It is 3 different discussion board posts, and I believe one page per assignment is enough (each posts has to be more than 250 words). Please let me know which question/questions you decide to write about. I included also the papers to read and the links. Sources for each assignment can be from the same papers (please cite page if using required reading).