Goal: To apply the concepts of communications forms and models to real-world personal examples by monitoring and then explaining actual episodes of communications.
Course Objective:
CO1: Explain the importance of communication in today’s diverse and multifaceted world.
CO7: Create messages and products that will clearly communicate a message to a diverse and multifaceted audience.
Description:
This assignment has 2 parts. Over the course of a day, keep track of the forms of communication that you use. Then complete the following 2 parts:
Part 1 — Make a pie chart of how much time you think you spend in an average day engaging in each form of communication (intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, public and mass). Add a paragraph that discusses how strong or weak you think you currently are in each of these forms. Here is a free online tool to create and download a simple pie chart, although you may use others:
