Define communication competence. Provide at least one personal example showing how you have benefitted from it.
What will be an ideal response?
- Communication competence is the ability to communicate effectively and is characterized by skills and understandings that enable communicators to exchange messages accurately and successfully. Communication helps us make connections with each other and with our world. Whatever your cultural background, learning style, or geographical location, you will find that your communication proficiency can mean greater academic success, improved relationships, a better job, and greater satisfaction in your life.
- Student examples will vary.
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Describe the difference between passive and active agreement?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is NOT a goal of effective delivery?
a. Develop and enhance audience perceptions of your credibility. b. Increase audience understanding. c. Maintain a relational connection with the audience. d. Convince the audience to agree with you.
Warren told his friend about how much he loved his romantic partner and planned to buy an engagement ring, but he decided not to tell his friend that he had been fired from his last job
In this case, Warren is demonstrating the dialectic tension of a. expressiveness/privacy. b. autonomy/connection. c. change/predictability. d. absence/presence.
East Asian communication is typically more ________ than North American norms
a. direct b. indirect c. outcome-oriented d. universalistic