COM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: National Communication Association
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Personal benefits: help develop more meaningful relationships, express ideas/point of view. Professional benefits: create good first impressions for job interviews, communication is the highest ranking skill employers look for in employees, helps get and keep a job. Social benefits: learn to influence people/persuade them to your point of view, distinguish strong/weak claims, become more effective with persuasive messages. Interaction with a speaker & listener: each pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s life e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)ces (cid:449)ill affect the outco(cid:373)e of (cid:455)ou(cid:396) co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)icatio(cid:374, a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s f(cid:396)a(cid:373)e of (cid:396)efe(cid:396)e(cid:374)ce causes a diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)ce i(cid:374) the i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)etatio(cid:374) o(cid:396) co(cid:374)st(cid:396)ucti(cid:374)g of messages. Channel: we communicate through channels (face-to-face, texts, email, etc. , choose the best channel for certain messages (quit job= face-to-face) Interference: anything that disrupts a message between the speaker & listener, t(cid:449)o ki(cid:374)ds . External- static, noise, traffic, laughing, or anything else that distracts a speaker/listener. As a speaker sends the message, the listener responds verbally or nonverbally.
