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One concept that I have really enjoyed reading about is LISTEN. I never put listening into perspective when it comes to communications. If you think about it, there are two parts to communicating. The first part is the person who is doing the speaking. Whether that is a given speech or answering a professor in class, or even a friendly conversation. The second part of communication we lose focus on is listening and how to do just that. We listen to those given speeches, to answers in class, and especially when we are in conversation with others. If we do not listen the right way, then communication loses its power. What I mean by that is when we communicate (I believe anyway) there is always some sort of message trying to be spread and when we don’t listen to EVERYTHING in communications, and then we miss out on so much. The key to listen is to STOP making the situation about you and listen to the words and their meaning in RELEVANCE to the point on the conversation. Is really not that hard to do so J

Interesting concepts

Throughout this semester, we have learned so many different concepts to help us grow in the communications world. I have learned many new terms that have changed the way I view communications in general. Some of those terms include the dialectics, the order in which we speak, how to listen, and how to manage. I found the different dialectics to be interesting because it really showed me different ways that communication in relationships can work. I found that in different relationships that I have, I have different dialectics for each one. I found the order in which we speak to be interesting because we speak aloud on a daily basis and never puts this into perspective. Some of us speak on the spot at all times with a spacial arrangement and others are topical. These terms do not only apply to a given speech. And the last one I found to be interesting was learning how to really listen to the other person. Effective communication cannot occur when listening properly is not in play.

Research Methods

To be honest, I do not like doing any kind of research what so ever when it comes to writing a huge paper. But if I had to choose a method from table 13.2 that I found to be interesting, I would have to choose task 1, formulate a question. Often I find that I never know where to begin research because I do not know how broad or descriptive I should make it. If I come up with a specific question, I think research wouldn't be so bad. An example would be as followed. If a teacher asks me to research basketball and all I researched was the word basketball I would never finish my project. But if I research when basketball was created, I believe researching can become more interesting. My research question for the word deception would start off as, what is the definition of deception. Then it would turn into, a how question then into a where question. The method I would chose to use would have to be method of rhetorical criticism because it goes into great detail on specific questions.