Application Paper

OBJECTIVES:

1. To provide you with an opportunity to integrate concepts from your readings and lecture notes.

2. To present you with a writing forum to apply some of the communication competence concepts to yourself or to your presentations/coworkers and management in an organization you are apart of.

Follow same format as Application Paper I, if you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Some example concepts you may choose or mix and match for the paper:

Part 1: Managing Conflict: How I manage conflict productively or unproductively with family, work, or dating relationships. How managing conflict in my life has been effective or ineffective. How I can improve my own conflict styles through the chapter concepts.

Part 2: Group Communication: The stages of a group, how groups are formed, the roles I play in groups, past positive/negative group experiences that relate to the chapter concepts

Part 3: Leadership: sources of power (legitimate, coercive, reward, expert, referent), leadership styles (directive, participative, supportive, achievement-oriented), leadership skills (flexible, accountable, effective communicators), high vs low context culture, ethical leadership

Part 4: Organizations: Classical management, human relations approach, systems approach and types of metaphors or analogies associated with each (machine, family, tree), mentors and protégé relationship, storytelling, peer/coworker relationships, learning norms

Part 5: Delivering Presentations: How to manage PSA (public speaking anxiety) and CA (communication apprehension) and the differences between them, anxiety triggers, speaking from manuscript, oratory, impromptu, extemporaneously differences, delivery/paralanguage

Part 6: Informative Speaking: How I prepared my informative speech, how I managed my communication anxiety, what I can improve upon for my future presentations, ideas I gained from watching other presentations

Part 7: Persuasive Speaking: How I will prepare or prepared for my persuasive speech, ethos/logos/pathos, attitudes/beliefs/behaviors, proposition of fact/value/policy, receptive/hostile, neutral audiences, Elaboration Likelihood Model Central vs. peripheral processing.