Support, Style,Organization and Presentation

Define the following terms in your own words. Do not use textbook definitions, but imagine how you would describe these terms to other students.

1.      Thesis: Main idea of your speech or essay.

2.      Narratives: An example in story form. 

3.      Analogies: Comparisons that make your idea more vivid to your audience.

4.      Testimony: The opinions or statements of others used to, usually, show support.

      5.      Presentation aids: Material used to give or show the audience to support your thesis

6.      Models: A lot like a presentation aid, used to further prove a point.

7.      Motivated Sequence: The way you organize the information you are presenting to allow your audience to respond positively to it.

8.      Orientation: Tells what the presentation is going to be about.

9.      Closure: Explains what the presentation was about. Reiterating what was said.

Name 3 examples of presentation aids.

1.        Flyer 

2.       Brochure 

3.       Power point/video

Name 6 patterns that are involved with Public Speaking.

1.     Temporal  

2.      Spatial

3.       Topical

4.       Problem-solution

5.       Cause-effect

6.       Effect-cause

What is the difference between a conclusion and closure?

A conclusion is usually a set length while closure can be very short or long.

Communication in organization



How would you honestly like to react to verbal aggressiveness?

I am a very straightforward person so what I would like to do and what I actually do are the same. When anyone

is verbally aggressive with me I defend my position without fail, unless I find that I was wrong then I apologize 

and die of embarrassment. Normally when someone is verbally aggressive with me I find that though I may not be 

completely verbally aggressive back I am just barely not being aggressive. 

What would you do if you just got hired and your new boss approached you and verbally

sexually harassed you, but if you told anyone you would lose your job This is not a 

simple question; you need to think of the overall consequences. You are new to the job, 

so would anyone believe you? Would you directly approach your new boss? Would you 

even tell anyone? How would you feel? Would you quit?

I would approach my boss directly and inform him that such behavior is not acceptable and if he

continued to act in such a disgraceful way I would have not problem reporting him to the EEOC. Honestly, 

I would feel horrid if I were really put into this situation but I would not falter in my beliefs of my rights as 

an employee and as a human, no one deserves to be treated in anyway that they don't want. 

Think about the two different types of organizational communication, formal and informal

communication. Choose one of the two and write an essay about which one you feel is better

and more efficient in communicating messages within an organization. Your essay should be a

minimum of 300 words with a maximum of 500 words. Within the essay you should provide

three main points and use the information from lesson 13 pages 273-289 to back up and provide

details substantiating your points.

I think that both forms of communication are valuable and both are  needed, but I suppose that if I am forced to just choose one formal communication would honestly come out first. Formal communication is better for overall everyday communication and allows for less mistakes to be made as well as for manipulation, blame, and fighting below the belt to occur.

Formal communication, when used properly, can lead to healthy communication When formal communication is used and the guidelines followed then the information being  given has less chance of being manipulated and miscommunication. When informal communication is used there is more of a chance that what ever you say will be interpenetrated and the message of what you were trying to say will change. Someone may also purposely try to distract you from what you are saying or may try to seem very charming and then take advantage of you when you are unsure of what is truly happened to you. 

Another thing that may happen when informal communication is used is blame, blaming someone for something using the fact that you were not too very careful with your words and how you said them. This can be easily avoided with formal communication. Though it does not make it impossible to blame someone formal communication does make it harder. Usually blaming another person for something is a tactic used in arguments when someone forgot something or they themselves are actually at fault and they do not want to take the blame. 

Fitting below the belt, or beltlining, is when someone emotionally hurts another by saying something hurtful or completely insensitive. Most people are able to detect where another's 'belt line' is and avoids it such as any decent person would. However, there are times when, in an argument, and someone is not being careful with their form of communication that another will take advantage and strike while the opportunity lasts. 

Overall, formal communication proves to be the safer form of communication as well as more efficient since the messages will not be mixed up or misunderstood.  

Effective Conversation

Write a short paragraph about a time when you had a really bad conversation with a person, or a

really good conversation with a person. Explain why the conversation was really bad, and what

you could do to improve the conversation. If it was a good conversation, explain what made the

conversation so good.                                                                                                                                I once had a conversation with a stranger while flying to Michigan to see a college that  

was interested in. She asked why I was flying and I told her the reason, I tried to speak clearly 

and at a level volume since she was around my grandmothers age. She talked at a very 

loud volume and would often interrupt my sentences and chastise me for speaking while she was

also speaking. I was very relieved to leave the plan after the longest fifty minutes of my life. 

The conversation was bad because throughout the entire thing I felt as if I were being yelled at, I 

was being interrupted and was being told off for it and she constantly switched topics to talk 

about herself. If I were to improve this conversation she would need to listen properly, lower 

her voice, and not talk about herself as much. 

       

 Analyze a disclaimer found in the media. Explain what it is you found, what kind of disclaimer

is used, and how it is used. Does the disclaimer work in this case, and how would the message

change if there wasn't a disclaimer?                                                                                                        When advertising cigarettes they always show or say the surgeon generals warning about 

how smoking can be a risk to your health to discourage smoking and to prevent people who do 

smoke and get sick from being able to sue the cigarette company. I'm not sure how well it 

works, but it does make me feel guilty whenever I make the mistake of reading my cigarette box

while smoking. I believe that the message, of selling cigarettes, would greatly improve as people

would not realize the potential harm of smoking. 

Leadership

-What qualities do you possess that make you a good member of a group? 

I work well under pressure and am able to handle conflict well.

-What qualities do you possess that make you a good leader of a group? 

I can take charge, I listen to what others have to say, and when needed I am able to get everyone

on task.

-When you become part of a group, do you generally prefer leadership or not?

It honestly depends on the group as well as the task, but I prefer to simply be a member unless

I'm with really worthless group-mates. Why should I have to put my all in when someone else is

willing?

          Find the 3 styles of leaders and list 2 different qualities from the reading that each style

would most likely possess.

The three styles of leadership are 

Laissez-faire- credibility, dependability

Democratic- empathy, stewardship 

Authoritarian- dependability, courage 

          

        You are to pick two of your favorite leaders from the present or the past. You can choose

from among athletic figures, historical leaders, politicians—anyone who you believe was an

effective (or possible terrible?) leader. For example, Julius Caesar as leader of the Roman

people.

  However terrible he was Adolf Hitler was a leader, and he was a good one. My second favorite 

leader would have to be JFk, he was a true peoples leader. Hitler was a authoritarian leader who 

though very much a bad person could make himself relatable to the people he wanted to control.

JFK was a democratic leader (leadership skills wise as well as being in the democratic party) 

who was compassionate and dependable who lead his people by trying to give them what they

wanted as well as what they needed.  Both leaders were fantastic at what they did, they were 

both able to get people to cooperate with them and do their bidding. Hitler was perhaps a bit 

more talented as he was able to start a world war with his people speaking skills while JFK was 

faced with such things as starting a war but rather having to deal with the Cold War. Hitler was a

better leader than JFK but he lacked the empathy ad courage the JFK had in abundance. While

Hitler was unable to convince everyone to follow him, even the people he forced to work for 

him, JFK could fight against the people who opposed him and he was able to succeed in 

whatever he wanted to get done, which perhaps is why he was killed or so some people think. 

If I had to change anything about the way these two people lead I would change Hitlers                  

personality, he would need to seem more compassionate and show more empathy to people if 

he were to actually succeed fully in what he tried. I would not however change anything about 

the way that JFK lead his people.  

Sending a letter to my mother, I am in fact so sweet.

Relationships!

In reality everyone wants to be the perfect lover, and perfect friend, but sadly everyone has faults. It's often very hard to look past your own prejudice and see your own faults as everyone around you sees them.
Admittedly, I would love to say that I am an Agape type, but I know I'm a selfish person. Though, I can be selfless at times, I am more of a Eros and Ludus, and maybe a bit Pragma. I have realized lately that I lose interest in my relationships quickly and I like to move on to someone new and more exciting.
When I am involved romantically I really don't care what kind of love type they are, though Pragma and Agape seem to be the most sensible thing to want in a relationship perhaps Mania wouldn't be bad as long as the person didn't become unhealthy with the relationship.

Friendship is sometimes more tricky than romantic relationships, to me at least. A friendship should be fun and meaningful, there is not point in being friends if the relationship is frivolous. Often in my friends I look for people who can offer me something (utility), teach me new things(stimulation) as well as someone who offers security, and gives me a safe place to go when I am in need. I am possibly a Utility, Affirmation, Stimulation, and Security as I try to be the type of friend I would want.
Friendship of reciprocity- I have a friend whom I spend the majority of my time with, we often help each other with problems buy each other things when we need it. There is a lot of equal give and take, which I find refreshing.
Friendship of receptivity- I've been friends with someone who has given me affirmation while I have given her stimulation, security and ego support. It is not a bad friendship and we get along well, however it does not seem to be awarding as a friendship of receptivity.
Friendship of association- Most of my relationships with others are of association with people I speak to often but do not have any great attachment to,they fill the time and can be quite interesting and fun.

Overall, I believe that media has a large affect on all types of relationships. In today's society looks are everything, people try to say that they aren't but those people are good looking so of course they don't think looks have such a large impact. Society tells everyone that beauty is everything, you must have a beautiful girlfriend/boyfriend who is physically fit as well as talented. If you aren't beautiful you must be rich to achieve any type of good relationship that is romantic. There's nothing wrong with liking beauty or liking money, but that should not be the main focus when entering a relationship. It is a bad thing to look only at someones outer appearance and not how they act and what type of person they are. When I am in a relationship I know there is also a slight pressure to achieve an unattainable goal of being beautiful and smart, not just for me but for my boyfriends as well because I unconsciously want someone beautiful as well. The media has made it seem like if a person isn't beautiful then they must be bad, or if a quick makeover can't make them beautiful then there's no use going out with them. So, people have begun to look for the perfect friend that helps them attain their crush and is never more beautiful than themselves as well as looking for a lover who is exactly who you want them to be. Perhaps if people didn't believe this so much there wouldn't be so many divorces, or marriages.  

Love