Communication Strategies

You will briefly describe a relevant choice that someone might make about how to act, interact, or react in relation to that social issue. Then, you will fully describe and evaluate that choice using your knowledge of judgment and decision-making gained over the course of the term. What cognitive, affective, contextual, and social factors might be influencing such a choice, and how? Which of these are properties of the decision-maker, and which are properties of the task? You will choose at minimum FIVE (5) decisional factors to discuss in your paper, including theories and concepts from the readings and lectures. Discussing more than five decisional factors is encouraged, if you feel it is appropriate. You will provide a brief definition of each decisional factor in your own words; demonstrate that you know what the concept is before you apply it to your choice analysis. Don’t apply concepts if you don’t understand them.

Presentation Strategies The graduate utilizes appropriate presentational communication strategies in personal and professional settings. INTRODUCTION An effective presentation requires careful preparation. In this task, you will create a plan for an informative or persuasive presentation that addresses a research-based, academic topic. Your preparation will include researching your chosen topic, planning for your intended audience, and creating an outline or other plan for your presentation. REQUIREMENTS Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide. You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. A. Describe your intended audience and why the topic is important to this audience (suggested length of 2–5 sentences). B. Create a presentation plan (e.g., outline) for a five- to seven-minute presentation on your chosen topic by including the following parts: 1. An effective introduction that includes the following aspects: • an attention-getting opening • a thesis statement • a preview of the main points of the presentation Note: For a five- to seven-minute speech, two to three main points are recommended. 2. Supporting evidence (e.g., statistics, published research) for the main points Note: Avoid using personal opinion, personal research, or personal experience as your supporting evidence. 3. an effective conclusion that includes a summary of the main points and closing comments. 4. a minimum of three credible sources a. Acknowledge sources within the text for all content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized, and provide a reference list that includes the author, date of publication, title, and location of information (e.g., publisher, journal, website URL) for each source. APA citation style is strongly encouraged. Note: Refer to the attached APA Guide for Communication Performance Tasks if needed. C. Attach one visual element (e.g., chart, graph, picture, model) that supports one of the main points with acknowledgement of any source information used. File Restrictions File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( ) File size limit: 200 MB File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z

Purpose: * The company that I am choosing for this topic is Nike! The goal of this writing project is to deepen your understanding of the concepts, theories, and rhetorical strategies that inform corporate communication by critically examining the communication practices used by some of the world’s largest corporations. You will need to clearly provide a theoretical framework for your analysis: are you analyzing how a corporation uses the rhetoric of corporate social responsibility? A corporation’s strategy for conveying its narrative and managing public perception? The tensions between a corporation’s ethos and its organizational communication practices? Your Task: Your paper should discuss and cite key texts from the weekly concepts and case studies. You should also include an additional 2 sources from your own original research, with one of those sources being a peer-reviewed journal article in the fields of communication, rhetoric and composition, technical communication, business communication, or business ethics. The weekly concepts and case studies have been attached.

In this reflection paper, you are asked to 1) describe a design of a persuasive narrative message (text-based or audio-visual) that will be released through some form of mass media; 2) analyze why (or why not) your message can influence your target audience’s decision making (e.g., persuade them to change their attitude or behavior). ——————— Choose ONE topic from the list below to design your persuasive narrative message on. If you are not interested in any of these topics, please propose your own topic to me via email. Professors should never be allowed to crush a student’s dream. Students shouldn’t be afraid to challenge a professor if they disagree with something. Changing a major isn’t the end of the world. Students shouldn’t drink or smoke just because they want to fit in. Students should not over commit themselves just to look good on their resumes. Persuade the government to pay the basic healthcare of students. Convincing a student to stay in college is very important. Never make hasty decisions on what to major in. It is important that students have a balanced life. Pregnancy shouldn’t be the end of a student’s college dream. Your persuasive message should be a narrative. Consider responding to the following questions while describing your message design: Who is (are) your protagonist for the narrative? Their gender? Age? Race(ethnicity)? Which mass media channel(s) will this message be released through? Who is your target audience? What kind of story line will the message use? Then, cite at least TWO theories or concepts you learned from this course (See the updated reference listPreview the document) to analyze why or why not your message can influence your target audience’s decision making. Things to consider for this section: what decision-making systems will your audience use to process the narrative? Will they identify with the characters in the narrative? Why or why not? What emotions do you expect the message will trigger in your audience? What kind of frame did you use in your narrative (gain frame? Lose frame? Others?) How will the factors above influence your audience’s decision making?

choose an informative speech. Using chapter 15 in “The art of public speaking” discuss the following: 1. Does it overestimate what the audience knows? 2. Does the presenter relate the subject directly to the audience? 3. Is the presentation to technical? 4. Does the presenter avoid abstractions? 5. Does the presenter personalize their ideas? 6. Is the presenter creative? Be sure to include the link for the speech that is analyzed.

The purpose of this paper is to link theoretical/scholarly material about behavior change and communication to a “real world” campaign. You will select a campaign of interest to you that used a media channel to reach it’s intended audience. This could include traditional news outlets, the blogosphere, various social media outlets, or some combination of these channels. You will then critique and analyze the case from the theoretical frameworks and perspectives in the scholarly literature you have chosen. Your case study should conclude with a summary of lessons learned from the case and/or any recommendations you have for how the individuals and/or organizations involved could have used behavior change theory more strategically to realize more favorable outcomes. The paper should have a minimum of 10 pages and a maximum of 15 pages of double-spaced text, not including the cover page or references (60 points). You can find an example paper here . While this is an excellent example of the methodology there are APA issues throughout so you will always be expected to know the APA rules for your paper. Please make sure the body of your case study paper includes all of the following components: Paper Components: Introduction: Describes the overall purpose of the paper (includes a description of case for background/context; briefly previews the campaign that will be analyzed and theoretical/scholarly literature that will be used; makes an argument for why that an area of scholarly literature is best suited to understanding the case). Literature Review: Summary of theoretical/scholarly literature reviewed for the case (at least 10 sources cited). Research Question(s): Clearly states research questions that are qualitative in nature and call for the use of a thematic or narrative content analysis. Method: Identifies the type of content analysis that will be conducted and discusses: content that will be analyzed; provides a rationale for content selected; describes how content will be collected; briefly identifies qualitative content analysis as the method of data analysis. Results: Qualitative content analysis that is clearly guided by the theoretical framework/scholarly literature reviewed for the case (e.g., if you reviewed Social Cognitive theories/principles, you should be analyzing your data to report if and how those principles were used). Findings from analyzed data are written in a narrative/thematic/descriptive format with example quotes interspersed to serve as evidence. Discussion: Provides comparisons/contrasts to previous literature AND practical lessons learned and/or recommendations you have for how the individuals and/or organizations involved could have used theory to more strategically organize the campaign to realize more favorable outcomes. Limit the body of your paper to about 10-15 pages double-spaced; this page limit does not include the cover sheet and references. Follow APA style for citations and your reference list. Following is the grading rubric:

After reading all the module content materials, answer the following: 1. Rainey (2014), Chapter 12 discusses “groupthink.” Briefly explain what is meant by groupthink (and how it is caused and corrected)? (200 words) 2. What are the major barriers to Effective Organizational Communications? (200 words) In addition, include at least one self-initiated question (guidelines for SIQs are in the syllabus) at the end of your response; then reply to at least one classmate’s question in 50 words.

You need to address the following 6 sections in a cohesive paper. 1. You have taken several self-assessments during your exploration of the book, invitations to insight, and inventories exam. Pick five (5) assessments from the groups below. Explain what the assessment indicated about you and how those characteristics would influence your communication during a conflict. I. Inventories exam (pick two (2) from this group) • Myers-Briggs (http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp and http://typelogic.com.html) • Mind Style Estimator • “What’s YOUR Learning Style?” II. Invitations to insight (pick two (2) from this group) • Communication Skills Inventory •. Your Self Esteem • Exploring Your Biases • Measuring Your EQ III. Book (there is only one in this section, so you must choose it 🙂 • Self-Monitoring Inventory 2. Explain how your personal background influences the way you communicate. Include four (4) of the aspects of background from the list below in your explanation AND illustrate your explanation with a personal example. o History o Culture o Ethnicity o Gender o Social status o Role 3. Based on your discussion above, explain how your communication habits influence your communication during a conflict. Use all three (3) aspects below in your discussion AND illustrate your explanation with a personal example. o Ethical approach (categorical imperative, ethic of care, golden mean, significant choice, utilitarianism) o Self-monitoring (pg. 69, a hard copy is in the book) o Empathy (Assessing Your Communication Skills (pg. 26)) 4. We learned about models of communication in our first Module. In thinking back to Module One, why would you find one of the models listed below more useful than others? How does your chosen model help you to understand more clearly the skills you bring to negotiation of interpersonal communication? (You should use one of the models from module one (chapter 1) in your discussion.) • Linear Model • Transactional Model • Pragmatic Model 5. Analyze and discuss the tools you use to negotiate during interpersonal communication. • What is your listening style? • What did you learn about your listening skills based on the listening problems checklist and Dr. Orman’s keys to better listening? This link will direct you to Dr. Orman’s keys to better listening (http://www.stresscure.com/relation/7keys.html). o We send messages that are both intentional and unintentional through verbal and non-verbal channels. What have you learned about your communication habits as they relate to intentional meanings? Unintentional meanings? Discuss both in terms of verbal AND non-verbal messages. 6. We looked at psychological barriers to communication in Module One. Module Two introduces physical and physiological barriers. In your personal and professional life, analyze and discuss the physical AND physiological barriers you encounter during communication. What tools will you use to negotiate these barriers? (25 total elements required for Module 2 project paper. Please BOLD ALL ELEMENTS.)

Assignment: Write the Discussion Section for the paper Attachments are included about what the paper is about, as well as, an “example” paper with a discussion section so you have an idea of what it needs to include. Your discussion section should comment on what you have learned from your research. It should be organized so that it relates directly to your research questions and hypothesis, and related back to your literature review. You want to avoid introducing new ideas here or discussing tangential issues not directly related to your study. This is the only part of the research paper where personal opinion or speculation beyond what is in the data is allowed. This is your opportunity to elaborate on the significance of your research, and comment on how it fits into the current scholarly conversation on your topic.

I have been assigned to write a short report for my profession communications English class. I will attach all the files necessary with the instructions for the short report. I have been asked to construct an explanation of an incident of discrimination against an employee.  I will attach a file with all the instructions for the actually Short report the minimum word count is 800 words.