COMM 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sarcasm, Active Voice, Uptodate
7 Dec 2018
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Culture is the basis of self-identity and community. Low-context cultures: cultures that favour direct communication and depend on explicit verbal and written messages exclusive of context: examples: canada people don"t care about the background of their partner. Sender encoding message (positive/negative/persuasive) & its channel decoding . Barriers to communication: bypassing sarcasm, when people miss each other"s messages because they interpret different meanings. For example saying probably, maybe, never, and always in a message: different frames of reference, different cultures. Lack of language skill: not first language, distractions, environmental, emotional, physical. Secondary: adapt, promote feedback, make it relevant. Drafting ( 25% : research, consider prior knowledge of audience, organize, depends on type of message ( positive, negative, persuasive , draft, short, concise, active voice. Revising ( 50% : edit, parallelism, make it clear, concise, proofread. Always understand the purpose define the audience/chanel be concise.
