Assignment
1. If you were going to conduct research, what outcome would you want to gain from your research? Are you more interested in understanding, prediction/control, or creating social change? What is the value of each of these approaches?
2. What role do you think the study of rhetoric can play in today's social world? The political context?
3A. What is the role of the oral tradition in today's society?
3b-Is it the form of the media or its content that most deeply influences us?
4a. Select an important person in your life and pay attention to your communication climate. How do you and this other person demonstrate recognition, acknowledgement, and endorsement?
4b. Reflect on one of your important friendships and trace its development through Rawlins' six stages. How was it affected by important transitions in your life, sexual attraction, and diversity?
5a. What are the differences between the terms "team" and "group?" Write down a team you have been a part of and a group you have been a part of. In what ways were they effective or not effective?
5b. How were/are decisions made in your family? Has the process changed over time? What kinds of communication surround the decision making
6a. Think of an organization you have worked in. What theoretical perspective did the organization take towards its workers? What was it like working within the boundaries of that perspective?
6b Explain ethical communication in organizations. What are the challenges? What are the benefits?
7a- What are some ways that you see to support Hofstede's claim that the U.S. is the most individualistic society? Are there ways in which we display attributes of collectivism?
7b- Describe a situation in which you attempted to diverge or converge your communication with others? What did you do? What were you attempting to accomplish by doing so? What was the result?
7c - What are some examples of representation and symbolic annihilation you can locate and analyze in contemporary texts of popular culture?
8a- What are some ways that your gender was communicated or taught to you by your parents? Other family members? Your school? Friends? Church?
8b What ways do you break traditional gender roles?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.