- Compose a 3- to 5-page paper developing an account and analysis of a common episode of interpersonal communication you have experienced based on the readings in Composing Relationships: Communication in Everyday Life. Include the following in your paper:
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- Give a detailed account of an episode of an everyday interaction you have experienced in your professional setting or at home, describing the verbal and nonverbal communication.
- Select two interpersonal communication concepts from the list below to apply to the episode. Then, describe what this episode teaches you about the communication concepts you chose.
– Communication spirals
– Confirming or disconfirming identities
– Face/facework
– Identity negotiation
– Gendered identities
– Levels of meaning (content and relational)
– Metacommunication
– Nonverbal communication
– Power dynamics
– Relational dialectics
– Relational maintenance
– Relational satisfaction
– Stereotypes - Evaluate the interpersonal communication in the episode. How did the communication contribute to or detract from developing productive relational satisfaction and climate?
- Develop suggestions about how you might use interpersonal communication to bring change and improvement to the communication climate and productivity in your professional setting or at home.
- Provide specific examples from your reading in the texts Understanding Interpersonal Communication: Making Choices in Changing Times and Composing Relationships: Communication in Everyday Life.
- Give a detailed account of an episode of an everyday interaction you have experienced in your professional setting or at home, describing the verbal and nonverbal communication.
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