Your job is to develop one strong discussion question (one question per
chapter) for your group members.
Your task is to help people talk over the big ideas in the reading and to share reactions to the text.
Dont worry about the small details; your discussion question should focus on main ideas. Be prepared with your own brief answer to your question.
You will need to post one discussion question (per chapter) and then reply to your own post to
provide your answer to the question.
1.Assume you are conduct an interview with an expert communicator. Your purpose is to find out what she or he thinks about Communication Excellence (i.e., a definition, examples, steps to greater excellence, etc.) in her or his area of expertise.
2. After you complete your interview, you are to type up a 2-page minimum paper of the communication summary from the interview. Have an introduction explaining who, when and where of the interview, including the qualifications of the expert. Include various parts of the communication process that apply to the Intro communications class: verbal and nonverbal communication, good versus bad listening skills, method of communicating using voice (tone, volume, etc.). or questions may be related to that persons area of expertise in terms of how communication plays a role in her or his job
3. Then in the body have a overall summary of what was learned about communication excellence from the interview. This can not be a word-for-word transcript of the questions and answers, but may include direct quotes to support your points about excellent or not-excellent communication. In the conclusion you should summarize what you learned about communication through this interview.
Like motivation theories, one could spend a great deal of time looking at Leadership Models.
Using the internet and a search engine, learn about each of these and provide a description in a short paragraph.
A. Reddin 3-D Leadership Model
B. Blake and Moutons Managerial Grid
C. Likerts Systems of Management
D. Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum Theory
Essay Number 1:
Write a paper that addresses the rise of Vietnamese Nationalism that creates the Viet Minh. How does the rise of Ho Chi Minh collide with the rise of the Cold War, the last gasps of French Colonialism, and military conflict in the 1940s and 50s to to create the American presence in Vietnam? Why does the US continue down the path to war in the 1950s? How are the ideas of American presidents consistent or different from Truman to Kennedy? What does Vietnamese nationalism mean to them? Use ALL of these questions to trace the development of the French-Indochina war into the rise of American support of South Vietnam. Use a thesis (a statement of argument) early in the paper (language like, “This paper argues…”) to help organize your paper.
Essay Number 2: Write a paper that addresses the escalation of the conflict between the two Vietnams and the increasing American presence in the conflict. How did the US go from advisors to direct combatants? How did that shift result in a war that wasn’t won in the mid 1960s? Given LBJ’s hesitation to commit, followed by a graduated commitment strategy to finally large troop deployments, what happened to create these changes? And why didn’t the commitment work? How did the failure of the warfighting strategy finally explode in the perceptions and misperceptions of success and failure in and around the Tet Offensive? What was different for US military commanders, politicians, and citizens by Winter/Spring of 1968?
Cite the readings in each essay. Use a very simple parenthetical citation method: (Karnow, pp. 45-46) or (Johnson, p. 6) within the paper, no footnotes needed. Use a very brief works cited page at the end of the total submission. Try to avoid LONG quotes, but brief quotes are allowed.
papers should be between 3 and 5 pages. Three and a half to four pages seems perfect.
Readings:
Andrew Rotter: The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Stanley Karnow: Vietnam, A History (1997 edition) Textbook
Research Paper Proposal Requirements:
Topic (1-2 sentences)
Background (1-3 paragraphs describing why your idea is relevant, what is the problem)
Abstract (300 word description of your project)
Objectives (What are your goals with this topic? What do you hope to learn or accomplish?)
What do you expect to find through this process? Do you have any biases you should be cognizant of while researching and writing and what are they?
An annotated bibliography light including at least half of the necessary sources. By this I mean a bibliography which includes a sentence or two describing each source.
Literary Devices Choose one or two of the literary devices we have been focusing on (repetition, imagery, symbol, or irony) and explain how the author, Tim O’Brien, uses the technique(s) to show the impacts of war (essential question #1). You will first need to answer the question: What are the impacts of war? Once you have answered that, choose one or two of the devices that you think O’Brien uses in his novel to show that impact. Find several examples of the technique(s) and use them as the evidence in your body paragraphs. Explain how these techniques achieve O’Brien’s purpose.
Multisystem issues are often a consequence of a failing body system and identification and consideration to determine the underlying cause of illness is essential. Though illness may create multisystem issues and may affect many body systems, for this assignment you will focus on three: renal, pulmonary, and circulatory systems.
You will discuss a specific illness, disorder or disease and the interrelationship with the renal, pulmonary, and circulatory systems, specifically identifying and describing how an alternation in one system may affect one or more of other two body systems. Explain how the body tries to compensate for a disorder, with assistance or reliance on another body system. Your submission should include three graphics or illustrations and a minimum of 5 peer-reviewed sources to support any of your perspective.
The writing is about two stories “Lawn” by Mona Simpson (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dr4HoAxIe7cDSQap-FVvrUvkL5C0Jmin/view) and “Theft” by Joyce Carol Oates (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UA-5CMosJN_S5MOZ3_Yo__B1SId5-X-E/view)
The prompt given:
“As you reread “Theft,” choose either Marya or Imogene as an example of the ways Oates creates a female character. When you reread “Lawns,” focus on how Simpson creates Jenny. You’ll need to read both stories for passages or moments that best represent how the authors create female characters. What arguments, ether acknowledged or unacknowledged, might each author be making about women?
Working from your examples, write an essay in which you discuss how Oates and Simpson represent women.”
The requirements are:
Essay must be at least 1,000 words
Your CLAIM should appear in the first paragraph
Use QUOTATIONS to qualify your points
Include in-text citations but NOT a Works Cited page
The conclusion should NOT merely restate your previous points
Respond to the following student responses provided in Prompt 1 based on the following (Response should be 137 words)
Prompt 1. Regrettably, systematic planning is not something that most negotiators do willingly. What are some of the consequences that the authors point out as being the result of failed planning? Discuss using examples that you have seen.
Student Response
Regrettably, systematic planning is not something that most negotiators do willingly. As a result of any failed planning, there are obviously important consequences worth noting. Throughout the text, we examine a variety of these consequences. The first consequence is that negotiators fail to set clear goals. This could be a consequence resulting from when negotiators enter negotiation with a vague or incomplete sense of what they want to achieve, or realize later that what they thought they wanted from a negotiation is not what they really wanted or needed (Barry, 2020, p.111). A second consequence could be that negotiators fail to set clear objectives or targets that serve as benchmarks for evaluating offers and packages in progressing toward their goal (Barry, 2020, p.111). This could be a result when negotiators who do not have clear objectives are not in a position to evaluate proposals quickly and accurately and as a result, negotiators may agree to deals that they later regret (Barry, 2020, p.111). A third consequence could be if negotiators have not done their homework, they may not understand the strengths and weaknesses of their own positions or recognize comparable strengths and weaknesses in the other partys arguments (Barry, 2020, p.111). A fourth consequence could be that negotiators need to consider their alternatives to doing the deal in front of them. If negotiators understand what alternatives are available to them if the current deal does not look like it will succeed, they will have more confidence and power to walk away from a bad deal (Barry, 2020, p.111). A final consequence may look like negotiators cannot simply depend on being quick and clever during the give-and-take of negotiation (Barry, 2020, p.111). One example of a consequence I have seen is when negotiators fail to set clear goals. I have seen various people go into a negotiation hoping for a variety of positive outcomes. In the end, since there was no clear goal for the outcome of the negotiation, the individual did not feel successful.
Respond to the following student response provided in Prompt 2 based on the following Response should be 137 words)
Prompt 2
Perception, cognition, and emotion are the basic building blocks of all social encounters. How does a working knowledge of how people perceive the world, process information and experience emotions prove important in negotiations? Can this knowledge be used in your favor? How?
Student Response
Perception perceived is perception believed. People use their perception to tie together the surrounding environment and circumstances (Lewicki, 2020, p. 192). A concern with this is ones ability to perceive subjectively instead of objectively, thus entering a wild card human element into any negotiation. Cognitive understanding of a negotiation is also subject and relates to human understanding and perception of the situation. When a person truly believes they are right in their stance or belief, they are more likely to continue pursuing an irrational or even unachievable end goals (Lewicki, 2020, p. 205). When emotion is added to the mixture of perception and cognition there is opportunity for a perfect storm in negotiating, whether the results will be positive or negative are still undecided. When considering this trio together, right away it may cause a negotiator to be attracted to the other party or frame them right away as someone they do not like.
The more in control of these three areas someone is able to be, the more likely it will be they are going to be successful in a negotiation. Of course, leaving room for skewed results of a completely irrational or overwhelmingly emotional person, I would venture to state being in control is the better option when negotiating.
Reference:
Lewicki, R. J., Saunders, D. M., & Barry, B. (2020). Negotiation. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
As a reminder this is a formal literary essay to be written in third person, using supporting quotes from the novel as evidence. There should be no personal narrative in this type of essay.
Final Paper Due On Canvas – 4 FULL pages (end of page 4) Plus Works Cited page.
The rubric is based on the same grading criteria developed by the English department and provided as a link in this course syllabus and in Elements of 1101 and 1102 on pages 34 and 35. It is the official grading criteria, and here is the short version with the most important elements with 5 strands:
1) Thesis/Argument – paper must provide a clearly stated argument in one sentence at the end of the introduction. The thesis must obviously be about the essay prompt, that is, making a relevant and valid argument in response to the prompt. 100 pts max (No thesis papers cannot pass)
2) Evidence/Quotation/Support – All body paragraphs must have quotes from the reading to support the thesis. All quotes need to be analyzed/explained and connected to overall argument/thesis. Quotes must be properly introduced. 100 pts max (A paper without supporting quotes cannot pass)
3) Organization -Topic sentences, transitions, logical order of body paragraphs. 80 pts max
4) Audience – Appropriate tone; no slang, informal English; no usage of You or I (Paper using first person narrative and/or second person “you” cannot pass) 60 pts max
5) Grammar/Language/Formatting – MLA style must be used throughout from the heading to works cited page; the Grammarly App is great to catch grammatical errors. 60 pts. max.
