Compare Family Communication (Chapter 7) Content to Family Portraits Article
Assignment description: Read two supplemental texts about family communication: (1) Duck and McMahan's (2010) chapter titled Family Communication and (2) the article Family Portraits: Stories as Standards for Family Relationships by Vangelisti, Crumley, and Baker (1999). What do the Family Portraits researchers claim about family stories that confirms content from chapter 7? What content in chapter 7 differs from the article? As a whole, what have you learned about effective family communication after reading chapter 7 and the article?
More specifics:
1) Read supplemental texts about family communication.
2) Compare the Duck and McMahan (2010) chapter to Vangelisti, Crumley, and Baker's (1999) article about family communication.
• How are they similar and how are they different? You can write about anything you read in chapter 7 and anything from the Family Portraits article.
• What do the Family Portraits researchers claim about family stories that confirms content from chapter 7? What findings in the article differ from chapter 7 content?
• As a whole, what have you learned about effective family communication after reading the article and chapter 7?
3) Next, write a 2 to 3 page paper that compares and contrasts the two works about family communication.
4) Use accurate APA formatting and citing throughout your paper
Visit the Useful COMM Docs folder for a refresher on how to write an APA style paper, if you need the tutorial
5) As always with APA style, do not skip clear STRUCTURE. Include strong organization throughout your paper - such as an effective introduction, frontloaded paragraphs, headings, and an appropriate conclusion.