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1. How do media shape our thinking?
3. What organizational pattern did Adam use and to what extent was it effective? By Adam Parrish, University of Kentucky“I’ll miss just being around her.” “I didn’t want to believe it.” “It’s such a sad thing.” These quotes are from the friends and family of 15-year-old Phoebe
2. Describe Adam’s credibility—initial, derived, and terminal. By Adam Parrish, University of Kentucky“I’ll miss just being around her.” “I didn’t want to believe it.” “It’s such a sad thing.” These quotes are from the friends and family of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, who, on
1. Is Adam’s speech persuasive or informative or both? By Adam Parrish, University of Kentucky“I’ll miss just being around her.” “I didn’t want to believe it.” “It’s such a sad thing.” These quotes are from the friends and family of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince, who, on January 14,
2. Use an online periodicals database, such as InfoTrac College Edition, to access the journal Vital Speeches and read President George W. Bush’s October 7, 2001, speech,“We Are at War Against Terrorism: The Attack on the Taliban.” How did President Bush recognize American values in opening
1. AmericanRhetoric.com provides an online bank of speeches. You access this resource by clicking on WebLink 13.3.
4. As a class, discuss what makes professors interesting or uninteresting in their classroom communication.
3. Note the use of stories to add interest and effect to public presentations. Describe a speaker who uses a story effectively and one who uses a story ineffectively. What are the differences between them? What conclusions can you draw about the effective use of stories in public presentations?
2. During the next week, pay attention to evidence cited by others in public presentations. You might note what evidence is used on news programs, by professors in classes, and by special speakers on your campus. Evaluate the effectiveness of evidence presented. Are visuals clear and uncluttered?
1. Make a point of listening to students who speak out for causes on your campus. How do the speakers’ attempt to establish that they are informed, dynamic, and trustworthy (the dimensions of credibility)?
Attend a speech on your campus. Identify instances of oral style:specifi c ideas and evidence redundancy short, simple sentences rhetorical questions interjections personal stories and language If you perceived the speech as ineff ective, was it lacking oral style? If you perceived it as eff
Think about the professors who were most eff ective, and those who were least eff ective, in communicating course content. For each group of professors, answer these questions:1. Did the professors use a formal or an informal speaking style?2. Did the professors state clearly what was important?3.
5. How can you listen critically to others’ public speeches?
4. How can speakers manage speaking anxiety?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of diff erent styles of delivery?
2. How can speakers enhance their credibility?
1. How is public speaking similar to conversation?
5. Do you think the banquet is a ritual? Why or why not? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available online at your CourseMate for Communication
4. How would you suggest that Ed repair the damage done by his absence from the company banquet? What might he say to his manager? How could he use I-language, indexing, and dual perspective to guide his communication? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case
3. How do the ambiguity and abstraction inherent in language explain the misunderstanding between Ed and his manager? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are
2. How might Ed use the informal network in his organization to learn the normative practices of the company and the meanings they have to others in the company? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These
1. How does the concept of constitutive rules, which we first discussed in Chapter 4, help explain the misunderstanding between Ed and his manager? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a
4. Interviews are a common form of communication in organizations. Among the types of interviews that are part of organizational life are hiring interviews, problem-solving interviews, reprimand interviews, appraisal interviews. An online chapter on interviewing is available to you at your
3. Robin Clair’s book Organizing Silence (1998;Albany: State University of New York Press) offers an excellent analysis of ways organizations and their members silence employees who object to unfair treatment.
2. The fi lm Remember the Titans provides a dramatic account of a man who was assigned to coach a group of athletes in a recently integrated school.The players didn’t work together well, largely because of ethnic differences and ethnocentric attitudes. This fi lm provides rich insights into
1. Visit the Web site of an organization you think you might like to join. Explore different links on the site to learn about the organization’s policies and the image it presents. From the material on its site, what can you infer about the organization’s culture?
4. Visit your school’s career planning and placement offi ce. Ask to speak with someone who is familiar with nonprofi t organizations. Talk with this person to learn about opportunities for service that might appeal to you.
3. As a class, analyze your school’s culture. Go online to fi nd your school’s policies governing matters such as class attendance, drug use, plagiarism, academic eligibility, and so forth. Based on these policies, what can you infer about the culture your school wants to promote? How
2. Talk with an administrator of a for-profi t organization in your community. Ask the administrator what the organization does to support the community—contributions to schools, pro bono work, employee time off to volunteer, etc.
1. Think about a group to which you belong. It may be a work group or a social group such as a fraternity or an interest club. Describe some common rites and rituals in your group. What do these rites and rituals communicate about the group’s culture?
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of personal relationships on the job?
3. How do today’s organizations diff er from those of earlier eras?
2. How do rituals and routines express organizational values?
4. Are any of the potential values of group versus individual decision making evident in this discussion?Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available
3. How do you perceive the interaction pattern between members? Does everyone seem to be involved and participating? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also
2. Based on this discussion, does this group seem to have a single leader, or do different members provide leadership to the group? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case
1. Classify each statement in this scenario as one of the forms of group communication(task, procedural, climate, egocentric). Is the balance among forms appropriate for a decision-making group? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the
2. Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph wrote Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute(1998) to give working tools to people who want to be empowering leaders. The book is organized in story form, relying on an extended case study to provide hands-on advice, tools, and exercises for increasing
1. Although Twelve Angry Men was produced many years ago, it remains an excellent fi lm about group dynamics in a decision-making group, in this case a jury.
4. In your class, form groups of fi ve to seven. Select a topic for discussion such as “What is the best method of testing in this class?” or “How can our campus be more environmentally responsible?”Have half of the groups follow standard agenda and the other half follow NGT to discuss the
3. Observe a meeting of a campus governing group—for instance, the Board of Trustees. Do the communication patterns you observe explain the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the group?
2. Ask several people who have lived in non-Western cultures whether the cultural values that affect group communication in the United States are present in the countries where they lived. In your conversation, explore how differences in cultural values affect group interaction.
1. Interview a professional in the fi eld you hope to enter after college. Ask her or him to identify how various groups and teams discussed in this chapter are used on the job. If you are already employed in a career, refl ect on your experiences with groups on the job.
whose health makes carrying a fetus dangerous to her nonetheless wants to become pregnant, and she asks doctors for fertility treatment. Should doctors provide the treatment?
% A woman
% If a patient wants to die when medical procedures could save him, should his doctors follow his wishes?
4. To what extent should leadership be assigned to a single group member?
3. What are the potential limitations of group discussion?
2. What are the potential strengths of group discussion?
1. Why are groups and teams becoming increasingly popular in professional life?
3. How does the concept of reflected appraisal, discussed in Chapter 9, apply to this case? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available online at your
2. If you were Dan’s friend, what might you say to alter his behaviors? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available online at your CourseMate for
1. If you were Hailley’s friend, what responsibilities would you have, if any, for helping her? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available online
3. View the fi lm, About a Boy (2002), directed by Paul and Chris Weitz. The story is about a surprising and unusual friendship between a selfi sh single man and a lonely boy. The central themes are friendship and support.
2. Many men as well as women are committed to ending violence against women. To learn more about men who are committed to stopping violence, go to the book’s online resources for this chapter and click on WebLink 10.7.
1. Visit an online dating service. Identify qualities men and women claim they have and qualities men and women are looking for in romantic partners. What similarities and differences can you identify?
2. As a class, discuss differences in the goals and rules for friendships and romantic relationships.Does comparing the two kinds of relationships give you any insight into the diffi culties that commonly arise when two people who have been friends become romantically involved? What are the diffi
1. Think about the distinction between love and commitment and the role each plays in personal relationships. Describe relationships in which commitment is present but love is not. Describe relationships in which love exists but not commitment. What can you conclude about the impact of each?
4. What is the cycle of intimate partner abuse?
3. How important is equity to the health of long-term romantic relationships?
2. What kinds of communication help sustain long-distance romances?
1. What are turning points and how do they aff ect relationships?
4. To what extent does Kate’s communication with her children reflect normative gender expectations in Western culture?Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are
3. What do Emma’s and Jeremy’s responses to Kate suggest about their acceptance of her views of them? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available
2. Identify examples of reflected appraisal in this scenario. What appraisals of her son and daughter does Kate reflect to them? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case
1. Identify examples of direct definition in this scenario. How does Kate define Emma and Jeremy? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available online
2. Some societies have more rigid lines for class membership than the United States does. One of the most rigid systems is the caste system in India. To learn about how a person’s caste affects his or her opportunities in life, go to the book’s online resources for this chapter and click on
1. The fi lm Nell dramatizes the impact of communication with others on self-concept. View the fi lm, and notice how Nell’s world changes as she begins to communicate with others.
2. Write 1-2 paragraph descriptions of how you defi ned yourself when you were 6, 10, and 16. How is your current self different from and an extension of those earlier views of yourself? Now, write a 1-2 paragraph description of how who you think you will be in 10 years. Tuck it away and re-read it
1. If you could revise the generalized other, how would you do it? Would race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic class be important aspects of self in your revision?
◆ How many ads aimed at men emphasize strength, virility, success, and independence?
◆ How many ads aimed at women focus on beauty, looking young, losing weight, taking care of others, and attracting men?
◆ What do articles convey about how women or men are regarded and what they are expected to be and do?
◆ What do the articles and ads convey about what and who is valued in the United States?
4. How can you create a supportive context for your personal growth?
3. What types of communication aff ect your understanding of who you are?
2. How do others shape personal identity?
1. What role does communication play in developing personal identity?
3. What could enhance Barton Hingham’s ability to communicate effectively with people who were raised in non-Western cultures? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case
2. How could Mei-ying be more effective without abandoning the values of her native culture? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available online at
1. How does Mei-ying Yung’s communication reflect her socialization in Chinese culture? Apply what you’ve learned in this chapter by analyzing the following case study, using the accompanying questions as a guide. These questions and a video of the case study are also available online at your
3. Edward Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden’s Like People in a Dream is a richly told account of fi rst contact between two cultures. In 1935 white explorers went into interior parts of New Guinea where the indigenous people still used Stone Age tools.
2. Lena Williams. (2002). It’s the little things:Everyday interactions that anger, annoy, and divide the races. New York: Harvest/Harcourt. This book offers clear examples of communication misunderstandings between blacks and whites.
1. Fern Johnson. (2000). Speaking culturally:Language diversity in the United States.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. This book provides excellent historical information about different groups in the United States and the different ways in which they understand and use language.
3. As a class, discuss the tension between recognizing individuality and noting patterns common in specifi c social groups. Is it possible to recognize both that people have standpoints in social groups and that members of any group vary? You might recall the concept of totalizing from Chapter 4 to
2. Continue the exercise started on page 170 by listing common sayings or adages in your culture.Decide what each saying refl ects about the beliefs, values, and concerns of your culture.
1. Identify ways that you do and do not fi t generalizations for communication by members of your sex that were discussed in this chapter.What about you—race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.—might explain the ways in which you depart from general tendencies identifi ed by researchers?
We can’t resist ethnocentric bias unless we understand our own culture and social communities and the values that they attempt to instill in us. Earlier in this chapter, we identifi ed proverbs that express values in non-Western cultures. Now, we’ll do the reverse by looking at common sayings
Locate a standard calendar and an academic calendar for your campus. Which of the following holidays of diff erent cultural groups are recognized and treated as holidays by suspension of normal campus and community operations?Christmas Passover Saka Yom Kippur Kwanzaa Hegira Elderly Day Seleicodae
4. How do people respond to cultural diff erences in communication?
3. What is ethnocentric bias?
2. How does communication shape cultures and social communities?
1. How do cultures and social communities shape communication?
Have people who have high power in society earned their power?
Does winning an honor refl ect more on the person who receives it or the person’s family?
Is it more important for society to be well-ordered or to provide personal freedom to its members?
If you were romantically attracted to a person you met online and wanted to have a face-to-face date with her or him, what would you do to maximize your safety?
If Chris and Brandon meet face to face, how will communication on their initial date be different from communication on first dates between people who have not met online?
Chapter 10 stated that proximity and similarities are the two most significant influences on initial romantic attraction. Does this statement hold true for the online relationship between Chris and Brandon?
Review Chapter 6, which focuses on listening and responding. Identify examples of ineffective and effective listening and responding on the part of Chris’s mother.

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