Assignment description: Watch the Brene Brown TEDtalk while considering hernonverbals, your listening, and the video’s message. Then write a 4 page APA style paper that addresses the prompts below (4 pages of content).
More specifics:
1. Watch this TEDtalk: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
2. While watching her presentation, take notes about Brown’s nonverbal communication and your strategies for listening
3. Then write an APA style paper that describes Brown’s nonverbal, your listening, and the power of vulnerability:
• Describe Brown’s use of nonverbal, including:
a) rule-guided nonverbals
b) intentional or unintentional nonverbals
c) various kinesics and her physical appearance
d) environmental factors and proxemics
• Describe your own experience with listening for information. Use the strategies on page 157:
a) Be mindful
b) Control obstacles
c) Ask questions (in this case, write some down)
d) Use aids to recall
e) Organize information
• Describe the power of vulnerability
a) What did you learn from watching this TEDtalk?
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.
Meaning, your intro paragraph should draw in the reader, have a clear thesis, and then preview the various sections of your paper. Your three main points are the three main topics/sections of your paper. Then your conclusion paragraph restates your thesis, reviews the paper, and provides a clincher.