Module $6$: Conversations $-$ the Good and the Bad

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Due Sunday by $11$:$59$ pm

Points $50$

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Available Mar $16$ at $11$:$59$pm $-$ Mar $24$ at $11$:$59$pm

Description:

In this assignment, you will review our reading resources on conversations. You will create videos that demonstrate good and bad examples of people engaging in conversation, drawing from your experience, explaining tips about how to make small talk, make an apology, and give and receive a compliment.

Objectives:

Explore and practice the elements of conversation.

Analyze guidelines for making small talk and other aspects of everyday conversation.

Instructions:

Review our reading resources for Module $6.$

Create four separate $60-$second videos TikTok style. In each video, demonstrate a bad then a good example of the following:

making small talk

making an apology

giving a compliment

receiving a compliment

You can record your videos in the classroom.

Connect your observations and experiences to a scholarly source like our textbook.

Integrate textbooks citations into your response underneath each video, explain what you did right and wrong in two to four sentences per video