Cultural Communications
Module 1: Cultural Communications Submit Assignment Due Friday by 11:59pm Points 50 Submitting a file uploadAvailable until Jan 15 at 11:59pm Description: In this assignment, you will analyze a film, play or television program to better understand how it reflects major principles of communication within culture. This assignment will help you connect the communication principles you are learning to the real world. Objectives: Analyze the forms, major principles, and myths of human communication. Explore the role of culture in human communication and explain the aim of using a cultural perspective to understand communication. Define communication competence and its qualities. Instructions: 1. Choose a film, play or television show that you believe represents your particular cultural experience. You may base this choice on ethnic, cultural, national or religious background, sexual orientation, gender, etc. 2. Explain what the work gets right about communication between the characters and anything that it gets wrong. 3. Is it an accurate depiction or does it weigh on stereotypes? 4. Use examples of your knowledge of the culture and communication competence to support your position. 5. Write a 3-4 page essay that summarizes your cultural perspective of the film, play, or television show that you chose. If, for any reason, you are not comfortable discussing your personal cultural background, then choose a work that you believe represents a different cultural perspective. Explain what the work says about that cultural. Is it accurate? Is it done well? Does it challenge stereotypes or reinforce them? Use specific examples to support your position. Assignment Submission: The use of outside resources is strongly recommended, and all papers must be cited and written in current APA format. 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Rubric Writing Assignments Rubric (1) Writing Assignments Rubric (1) Criteria Ratings Pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Ideas 10 pts Ideas are clear, insightful, thought-provoking, and focused so that they consistently support the topic, thesis and audience for the paper. 8.5 pts Ideas are clear and focused to support the topic and a clearly-stated central idea, but are not consistently insightful or thought-provoking. 7 pts Ideas are clear but conventional or general, and support the topic, thesis, and audience for the paper. 5 pts Ideas are unclear or clichéd and demonstrate a lack of focus in support of the topic or a central idea, which may be vague or missing. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Development 10 pts Development is fresh, with abundant details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific and insightful evidence in support of sound logic. 8.5 pts Development is adequate, but may lack depth, with details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific evidence in support of sound logic. 7 pts Development is sufficient but general, providing adequate but perhaps not interesting details, examples, and evidence that include no logical fallacies or unsupported claims. 5 pts Development is insufficient, providing scarce or inappropriate details, evidence, and examples that may include logical fallacies or unsupported claims. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeOrganization 10 pts Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the papers purpose/ plan and consistently demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs. 8.5 pts Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the papers purpose/ plan and usually demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs 7 pts Organization is coherent and unified overall in support of the essays purpose/ plan, but is ineffective at times and may demonstrate abrupt or weak transitions between ideas or paragraphs. 5 pts Organization is confused and fragmented in support of the essays purpose/ plan and demonstrates a lack of structure or coherence that negatively affects readability. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle & Mechanics 10 pts Readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, precise word choice and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Mastery of style) 8.5 pts Style is readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, effective word choice, and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Effective style) 7 pts Style is readable, but unremarkable in tone, sometimes including a lack of sentence variety effective word choice, or some distracting, but not serious, errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Readable but inconsistent style) 5 pts Style is incoherent or inappropriate in tone, including a lack of sentence variety, ineffective or inappropriate word choice, and serious errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Ineffective style) 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormat 10 pts Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works expertly to support the essays purpose/plan. 8.5 pts Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works generally to support the essays purpose/plan. 7 pts Format is mostly correct, meets critical aspects of assignment directions, and works mostly to support the essays purpose/ plan. 5 pts Format is faulty, does not meet sufficient aspects of the assignment direction, and does not support the essays purpose/ plan. 10 pts Total Points: 50
