Social Dynamics & Communication Skills

750 to 1000 words

750 to 1000 words

Learning styles represent the different approaches to learning based on preferences, weaknesses, and strengths. For learners to best achieve the desired educational outcome, learning styles must be considered when creating a plan. Complete “The VARK Questionnaire,” located on the VARK website, and then complete the following:

  1. Click “OK” to receive your questionnaire scores.
  2. Once you have determined your preferred learning style, review the corresponding link to view your learning preference.
  3. Review the other learning styles: visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic, and multimodal (listed on the VARK Questionnaire Results page).
  4. Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.
  5. Examine how awareness of learning styles has influenced your perceptions of teaching and learning.

In a paper (750-1,000 words), summarize your analysis of this exercise and discuss the overall value of learning styles. Include the following:

  1. Provide a summary of your learning style according the VARK questionnaire.
  2. Describe your preferred learning strategies. Compare your current preferred learning strategies to the identified strategies for your preferred learning style.
  3. Describe how individual learning styles affect the degree to which a learner can understand or perform educational activities. Discuss the importance of an educator identifying individual learning styles and preferences when working with learners.
  4. Discuss why understanding the learning styles of individuals participating in health promotion is important to achieving the desired outcome. How do learning styles ultimately affect the possibility for a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodated in health promotion?

Cite to at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Requirements: 750 to 1000 words

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The final version of this paper is due on Sunday

The final version of this paper is due on Sunday

Other Question

The final version of this paper is due on Sunday of unit eight. I would appeal to your better nature and ask you to try to turn it in earlier than that though. The final draft is worth 260 points and is a major component of the portfolio.

For this paper, you should explore an organization’s communication in a crisis or change situation. Begin with an organizational crisis or change situation—school shootings, chemical or oil spill, bankruptcy, change in CEO, etc. Here are some examples of papers you might do:

  • study the metaphors the President uses when he speaks on a major crisis like the BP oil spill
  • study the corporate response to a company’s recall of a drug or a product
  • study an athlete’s (or actor’s or company’s) apology for wrong doing
  • study the speeches of a new CEO

The list is really endless. Essentially, you pick some communication and analyze it using a method or theory from the lectures, text, or your own research. The topic you pick will lead you to a method of analysis. A number of possible ways of analyzing communication exist. For example, Bill Benoit at the University of Missouri discusses image restoration (how do people who have screwed up get back in good standing with their peers/publics). Coombs, Seeger, Sellnow and Ulmer often write a crisis communication.
In the paper, you should develop an effective argument about the implications of a communicative act. Avoid making obvious claims–show your reader something important that they didn’t already know.
Follow the format outlined in the handouts and our discussions. The information below should serve as a guide.

This paper should be at least 10 complete pages long– on to the eleventh page is better. It should be typed in a 10-12 character-per-inch font, double spaced with one-inch margins. As a paper, it should have an introduction which sets up the paper and a conclusion that reviews your main ideas. Use section headings, transitions between sections, and previews and reviews in each section. You must use at least eight sources in the paper. Remember to use APA style. Spell-check and grammar-check is recommended. Papers with many errors hurt your credibility and your ability to communicate.

Realize that we are writing the paper in stages. You will write three papers and combine them into this one final paper, so 1) don’t panic and 2) don’t forget to go back to the drafts and edit the paper to make it flow.

Guidelines

  • Introduction
    1. Attention getter.
    2. Identify the communication you will be studying.
    3. Explain why it’s important to look at this event.
    4. Preview the sections of the paper.
  • Background
    1. Give background on when, where, and to whom the communication was delivered.
    2. Describe the communication—summarize its main points.
    3. Discuss the crisis or event that made the communication necessary.
    4. Explain the circumstances surrounding the act/communication.
    5. Explain the barriers/expectations the piece faces.
    6. Describe the speaker,
    7. Summarize at least three articles about the communication/speaker.
    8. Explain in more detail why the text/communication is interesting (expand on your introduction).
    9. State your thesis or main argument about how we should see the communication.
  • Theory/Methodology
    1. Explain your theoretical perspective.
    2. Summarize at least three other studies done with your method.
    3. Explanation of why this method works with the communication you are exploring
    4. Explain what standards are used for evaluation? Effects? Truth? Ethics? Artistry?
  • Analysis/Evaluation
    1. Identify your thesis. Phrase it as how, using your methodology as a lens, we now “see” your artifact/communication.
    2. Develop at least three arguments which support the thesis/research question.
    3. Give at least three examples (often quotes from the artifact) to support each of the arguments.
    4. Using criteria established in your theory section, what can we learn about this piece? This speaker? These strategies? The consequences of using these strategies?
    5. What conclusion or assumptions about the rhetor or the artifact can be made?
  • Conclusion
    1. What is the general argument of your study?
    2. What has this study contributed to the study of organizational communication?
    3. What are some possible areas for future study?
    4. What should the reader take away from this work?

Requirements: Looking for a more in-depth guide with all the details.

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Ethics and Social Discussion 1

Ethics and Social Discussion 1

After reading the case in the Activity “Something’s Rotten in Hondo,” provide an example of an ethical dilemma you have encountered in your professional life. Using the theories and suggestions from the reading, compare and contrast the way you approached your dilemma to the way Bill handled the ethical dilemma in the case study. What was the outcome regarding your dilemma and what, if any, suggestions from the reading would you employ next time? Do you agree or disagree with the way Bill handled his situation? Please illustrate your response with examples from the reading.

Something’s Rotten in Hondo

Introduction

In this scenario, George, the plant manager, must make a decision about how to handle air contamination caused by the plant where he works. What would you do if you were George? Which ethical decision making rule would you apply to help guide your decision? Why?

Hondo Mini-Case

http://public.tepper.cmu.edu/ethics/AA/mgmt05-case…

Requirements: More than 15 characters, Less than 4000 characters

-Post adds value by raising novel points or providing new perspectives.

-Post is concise and clearly written in an academic tone; Sentences are complete; spelling, grammar and punctuation are correct.

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Tittle: Sociological perspectives

Tittle: Sociological perspectives

Sociological perspectives
Choose Topic: Sociology
Number of Pages:

Question Description: First, explain three brands of theories in sociology (conflict, functionalist, and interactionalism). Second, write about relationship between COVID-19 and health disparity. Third, apply one of the theories to explain the relationship between COVID-19 and health disparities. 400-600 words

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SOCY325 Week 6 discussion

SOCY325 Week 6 discussion

This week asks you to look at many different institutions in our society specifically as gendered institutions. Referring directly to the learning resources for this week, as a response to this post, take a moment to synthesize what you have learned:

  1. What are some of the major threads that connect these institutions in terms of gender, gender expectations, or effects on gender?
  2. Are there any common problems that need to be solved?
  3. Why is it important to consider intersectionality whenever we look at gender in institutions? Give at least two examples from the learning resources.
  4. Is the role of gender in politics connected to finding those solutions? If so, how?
  7. Finally, choose one or two of the gendered institutions we learn about this week (education, politics, criminal justice, military, healthcare, religion), and dive deeper into these questions:
    • How do expectations about gender affect that institution?
    • How does that institution affect gender?
    • What are the major hurdles to achieving gender equality in that institution?
    • What would gender equality look like in that institution?
    • And, what do you see as the major work that institution needs to do to achieve gender equality?

Requirements: 300 words or more

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