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1 Explain the importance of oral presentations in your career success
2 Explain how to adapt the planning step of the three-step process to oral presentations
3 Discuss the three functions of an effective introduction, and identify different ways to get your audience’s attention
4 Identify six ways to keep your audience’s attention during your presentation
5 Describe the six major design and writing tasks required to enhance your presentation with effective visuals
6 Identify six methods that effective speakers use to handle questions responsively
7 Describe the important aspects of delivering a presentation in today’s online environment
1. What is an effective way to respond if you feel nervous right before giving a presentation?
2. How does the completion stage of the three-step writing process differ between reports and presentations?
3. Why do you have to limit your scope when planning a presentation?
4. What do you want to achieve with the introduction to your speech? With the close of your speech?
5. If you suspect that your audience doesn’t really care about the topic you plan to discuss, how can you generate interest in your presentation?
6. If you’re giving a presentation in a subject area that you’ve researched thoroughly but in which you don’t have any hands-on experience, how do you build credibility?
7. What are the key rules for designing effective visuals?
8. As a speaker, what nonverbal signals can you send to appear more confident?
9. What can speakers do to maintain control during the question-and-answer period of a presentation?
10. What must you consider for online presentations?
4. What are the pros and cons of speaking from your notes?
5. Ethical Choices Is it ethical to use design elements and special effects to persuade an audience? Why or why not?
1 Explain the importance and features of an employment portfolio
2 Describe the key steps to finding the ideal opportunity in today’s job market
3 Discuss how to choose the appropriate résuméorganization and length
4 Describe the problem of résumé fraud
5 Outline the major sections of a traditional résumé
6 Describe the completing step for résumés
1. What is the purpose of maintaining an employment portfolio?How does a portfolio influence employers?
2. What challenges do job seekers face today?
3. What skills do employers seek in today’s job applicants?
4. What are key online sources for a career and employment search?
5. What is a résumé? Why is it important to adopt a “you”attitude when preparing one? How is a résumé different from a CV?
6. How does a chronological résumé differ from a functional résumé? When is each appropriate?
7. What elements are commonly included in a résumé?
8. What are different types of introductory statements and when are they used?
9. What are some of the most common problems with résumés?
10. What must you keep in mind when distributing your résumé online or in a scannable format?
11. How can your online presence affect your job search?
12. How often should you update your résumé and why?
1. If you’re still a year or two away from graduation, should you worry about your job search? Explain your answer.
4. Some people don’t have a clear career path when they enter the job market. If you’re in that situation, how would your uncertainty affect the way you write your résumé?
5. Ethical Choices Between your second and third years in university, you quit school for a year to earn the money to complete your education. You worked as a loan-processing assistant in a finance company, checking references on loan applications, typing, and filing. Your manager made a lot of the
1 Define the purpose of application letters, and explain how to apply the AIDA organizational approach to them
2 Describe the typical sequence of job interviews
3 Describe briefly what employers look for during an employment interview and pre-employment testing
4 Outline six tasks you need to complete to prepare for a successful job interview
5 Explain the three stages of a successful employment interview
6 Identify the most common employment messages that follow an interview, and explain when you would use each one
1. What are key tips for writing application letters?
3. What typically occurs during a stress interview?
4. Why do employers conduct pre-employment testing?
6. What are the three stages of every interview? Which is the most important?
7. How should you respond if an interviewer at a company where you want to work asks you a question that seems too personal or unethical?
8. What should you say in a thank-you message after an interview?
9. What is the purpose of sending a letter of inquiry after an interview?
10. What organizational plan is appropriate for a letter of resignation? Why?
2. What can you do to make a favourable impression when you discover that an open-ended interview has turned into a stress interview? Briefly explain your answer.
3. If you want to switch jobs because you can’t work with your supervisor, how can you explain this situation to a prospective employer? Give an example.
5. Ethical Choices Why is it important to distinguish unethical or illegal interview questions from acceptable questions? Explain.
1. In what ways does intercultural communication matter from your personal point of view? Which of the five reasons discussed in this chapter connect to your personal experiences of intercultural communication? Select two out of the five reasons and argue for their importance.
2. Culture is a broad concept, but how do you understand it? What metaphor or image will you use to explain the concept of “culture” to a 6-year-old child? Using an iceberg metaphor of culture, find out how much you know about your own culture or cultural community at the three levels and how
3. Attending to the transactional process model of intercultural communication, how do you think we can better our communication with each other in interpersonal and workplace situations using the core ideas in this model?
4. Which of the five assumptions about intercultural communication do you find most insightful and challenging in everyday intercultural–intergroup interactions?
5. Assumption 3 of intercultural communication states that “[m]any intercultural encounters involve well-meaning clashes.” Do you agree or disagree with this assumption?Can you provide some interesting intercultural misunderstanding or clash examples from your everyday life to illustrate this
1. Let’s revisit Stella’s story, which reflects her core composite identity domains and social identity complexity. Using each of the three paradigms—functional/social scientific, narrative/interpretive, and critical/social justice—what insights can you provide about Stella’s identity
2. Of the 10 key assumptions from the IINT, which three key assumptions resonate with you? How so and why?
3. Which identity domain is more important to you at this stage of your life: sociocultural identity, sociorelational role identity, and/or personal identity? Does your sociocultural and sociorelational role identity shape your everyday communication more so than personal identity, or vice versa?
4. What are your experiences of communicating with individuals from stigmatized group memberships such as people with disabilities?
5. If you’re interested in studying the topic of “Peace Corps volunteers’ intercultural adjustment process overseas,” can you articulate the researcher’s standpoint and emphasis from each paradigm: functionalist paradigm, interpretive paradigm, and critical paradigm? What would you be
6. Each research paradigm has its own identity and parameter. What do you think are the future trends of each paradigm? Convergence or divergence of perspectives?Argue for your point of view.
1. What are the ABCs of culture shock, and how have you experienced them in different situations such as study abroad, abroad work assignment, or domestic relocation(e.g., East Coast to West Coast in the United States or vice versa; different schools and workplace situations), and international and
2. Relating to the opening story, what advice would you give Tenzin to deal with or reduce his cultural shock experience with the “Tea Interview” case story? How would you explain to him the different treatment between tea drinker and coffee drinker and the cultural values attached to tea
3. Which of the culture shock models—the W-model or the M-model—better explains your experiences of culture shock? How did you deal with your culture shock, and what has or has not worked well? How can you improve these models?
4. What do you think of reentry culture shock, and have you experienced it? Based on research insight, your reentry culture shock experience, or observed reentry culture shock experiences of others, can you create a graphic model of reentry culture shock and mark and connect all the essential
5. How would you answer “Where is home?” and how is your answer similar to or different from that of the floating-tribe people like Pico Iyer? What lessons can we learn from each other’s notions of “home” with regard to managing culture shock adjustment issues?
6. Discuss how the competent intercultural and intergroup identity negotiation process(review Chapters 1 and 2) can enable us to manage culture shock adjustment adaptively in different unfamiliar cultural community settings—whether you are crossing international boundaries or navigating domestic
1. In regard to the opening case story, what do you think of intercultural dating relationships?Can you think of persuasive ways to support and promote intimate–intercultural relationships? How can parents and cultural communities support intercultural relationships? What can parents do to raise
2. Among the three levels of antecedent factors that influence intercultural acculturation, which of them do you think impacts and creates the most stressors in immigrants’acculturation process? In what ways can host receptivity at the systems level(e.g., immigration policy), individual level
3. Which of the identity change process models in your view help explain better immigrants’integration into the host environment? What can the host country members do to show respect and support to the social identity complexity of the immigrants?
4. To what extent do immigrants encounter intergenerational communication challenges and stigmatized social identity challenges in interpersonal and workplace situations? What strategies can enable us to face these challenges? What are the pros and cons of using social mobility, social creativity,
5. Based on research findings on effective outcomes, what future research directions would you suggest intercultural and intergroup scholars should focus on in promoting bicultural frame-switching and bicultural code-switching processes in both host and immigrant intergroup contact experiences?
1. Let’s revisit the opening story for critical insights. In both conversations, were Peter and Alex merely engaging in friendly teasing or casual jokes? Were both episodes involving language misunderstandings? On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 = strongly disagree and 10 = strongly agree, how would
2. Now that in this chapter you have learned about the threefold prism of mindless versus mindful communication, how would you apply the prism to analyze this problematic case story from multiple angles? What mindful dialogue strategies can you recommend to help Jessica, Peter, and Alex promote
3. Can you think of specific intercultural or intergroup interaction examples to illustrate the four stages of the staircase model: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence? Can you analyze and critique the pros and cons of the staircase
4. Which do you believe is the most important competence component: knowledge, attitudes, or skillsets? Which of the components is easier or toughest to apply and why?
5. Mindfully reflect on your own strength and weakness in regards to the three criteria of communication competence—appropriateness, effectiveness, and adaptability.Which criterion will you emphasize the most and why? Do you think there are cultural differences in emphasizing the priority of
6. How easy or difficult do you think it is to apply the threefold facets (i.e., the being present orientation facet, the affective attunement facet, and the metacognitive awareness facet) of mindfulness? Which one facet do you think you are good at, and which facet do you think you need to pay
7. If you are invited to design a “promoting quality intercultural–intergroup relationship”training workshop at your workplace, how would you sequence your training design? For example, would you use a knowledge–attitude–skillset design or a skillset–attitude–knowledge sequence?
1. Of all the four value spectrums in Hofstede’s framework of cultural variability dimensions, which one value dimension creates the most intercultural or intergroup misunderstandings in your family or intimate relationships? How about in your workplace?
2. Power distance and display of respect across cultures are part of everyday interactions.How do you negotiate power distance in interpersonal, intercultural, and workplace situations? Do you have an intercultural story similar to or different from that of Tenzin’s story? How and why do
3. How are your family value patterns different from or consistent with those of the larger cultural and/or ethnic value system? How are your personal value patterns different from or consistent with these patterns?
4. Can you distinguish the individual-level personality factors (e.g., self-construals)from the culture-level general factors (e.g., individualism–collectivism and power distance) in your communication with cultural strangers? What are the pros and cons in differentiating the different levels of
5. Which of the classical value orientations do you attach the most importance to, and how do they shape your perceptions, lifestyle, and everyday decision-making process?
6. Think about a specific region of the world you might be visiting for an extended period of time or doing business with in the future. Identify the specific value dimension differences you might find between your cultural values and the regional cultural values.
7. If you have to work on a team project with other students who have diametrically opposite values from your own, how would you manage the differences in a competent manner? Recommend two ideas you can practice or apply to manage possible value clashes.
1. Jot down your gut-level meanings for the two terms “power” and “privilege.” Compare your meanings with those of another classmate. Do you hold similar meanings or different meanings for those two terms? How did you acquire such meanings? Do you think individualists and collectivists
2. Think of the common vocabulary, metaphors, or idioms you use in the larger U.S.culture or in your own ethnic community or with your own close-knit identity group.Can you make a case for how language, thoughts, emotions, and culture are interdependent?Use as many language examples as you can to
3. Have you ever been stereotyped because of your accent? When you heard someone speaking English with an accent in your first team meeting project—one with a British accent and one with a Vietnamese accent, how did you form your first impression?What images came to your mind? Have an honest
4. Have you ever encountered high-context/low-context communication clashes in your own culture or with people from another culture? Can you share a concrete example? Did you repair the communication damage afterwards, and how? What advice would you give to low-context folks to communicate
5. If you were the team leader of a multinational group project, how would you use the knowledge blocks from the cross-cultural verbal communication styles’ section to create a verbally sensitive and supportive interaction climate to include all team members in a productive group discussion? What
6. Having read the chapter and as you revisit the opening story, can you think of some concrete constructive verbal communication steps Majid and Dr. Jones could have taken to avoid such an extreme incident? Consider how faculty, staff, and international student advisors could use the OPEN guide to
1. Can you analyze the pros and cons of the bioevolutionary perspective versus the sociocultural perspective? Can you provide some evidence from your everyday observations to support or refute each perspective?

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