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2. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Entire Course (Ash) COM 200 Week 1 Article Critique Masking Poor Communication (2 Papers) (Ash) • COM 200 Week 1 Article Critique Masking Poor Communication (2 Papers) • COM 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Improving Verbal Communication • COM 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Nonverbal Miscommunication • COM 200 Week 2 Assignment Talking Styles (2 Papers) • COM 200 Week 2 Quiz • Week 1 - Assignment • Article Critique: Masking Poor Communication • Use the ProQuest online database (found in the Ashford Online Library) to locate the article entitled, “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication.” Write a two-page paper (excluding title and reference pages) about your thoughts on this article

3. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 1 Individual Assignment Listening Barriers (2 Papers) COM 200 Week 2 Analyzing Nonverbal Communication Worksheet • COM 200 Week 1 Individual Assignment Listening Barriers • Week 1 • Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you discuss the listening barriers discussed by Beebe, Beebe, and Redmond (2013) that you have experienced • Complete the "Nonverbal Communication Worksheet" • Submit the worksheet.

4. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Improving Verbal Communication (Ash) COM 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Nonverbal Miscommunication (Ash) • Improving Verbal Communication • In Chapter Four of Making Connections: Understanding Interpersonal Communication, the author discusses the power of language and how verbal communication can affect interpersonal relationships • Nonverbal Miscommunication • Nonverbal communication is one of the most powerful ways that we communicate in our interpersonal relationships. Sometimes, however, we may find ourselves unintentionally communicating something that we do not mean to.

5. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 2 Learning Team Introductory Interview COM 200 Week 2 Quiz (Ash) • COM 200 Week 2 Learning Team Introductory Interview • Review the "Cultural Barriers" activity on the MyCommLab student resource page. • For this assignment, you will interview someone from a different cultural background than your own or select an individual interview from the MyCommLab Cultural Barriers activity. • 1. Question : Americans tend to look at others above the neck or below the knees. Looking at other parts of a person’s body is considered impolite, while looking at anyone for more than three to five seconds can be interpreted as staring. • 2. Question : Children often learn to send messages using ________________ before they learn to speak.

6. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 3 Assignment Self-Assessment Communication Style (2 Paper) COM 200 Week 3 DQ 1 Everyone Has a Culture (Ash) • This Tutorial contains 2 Papers • Review "The Company You Keep and the Image You Project: Putting Your Best Face Forward in Online Social Networks" in this week's Electronic Reserve Readings. • Review your results from the What's My Face-to-Face Communication Style? self-assessment. • Interpret the scores of your peers on the Peer Perception Survey. • Everyone Has a Culture • Some students think that they do not have much of a cultural background because they were not born outside of the United States or because they do not speak another language. The truth is that everyone has a culture! Your culture can be related to your race, ethnicity, gender, age, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, ability, etc

7. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Willingness to Listen (Ash) COM 200 Week 3 Learning Team Overcoming Intercultural Barriers • Willingness to Listen • Research from communication expert, James McCorskey, has been very influential in research within the interpersonal communication field. He is especially well-known for his communication research scales • COM 200 Week 3 Learning Team Overcoming Intercultural Barriers • For this assignment, you will use your Intercultural Interview from Week 2. • Create a plan incorporating strategies you could use when faced with intercultural barriers. • Summarize the following as a part of your plan: • • Description of the individual you interviewed

8. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 4 Assignment Managing Relationships Presentation COM 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Empathy (Ash) • Week 4 • Create a 10-to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes in which you analyze a current or past relationship (personal or professional) and create a strategy for managing it. Limit each slide to key words/phrases only (do not use complete sentences). • Empathy • In this week’s readings the author discusses emotional intelligence, a concept which measures people’s ability to understand emotions and express them appropriately. As you have learned, this ability is crucial to communicating effectively in interpersonal relationships.

9. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 4 DQ 2 Attraction in Interpersonal Relationships (Ash) COM 200 Week 4 Individual Managing Relationships Paper (2 Papers) • Attraction in Interpersonal Relationships • Chapter Eight of Making Connections: Understanding Interpersonal Communication addresses the various elements that attract us to other people when we first enter a relationship. It might be just one thing that we like about another person or it could be several things • COM 200 Week 4 Individual Managing Relationships Paper • Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you analyze a current or past relationship (personal or professional) and create a strategy for managing it. • •Explain the basic facts of the relationship by answering the following questions: • •With whom do you have the relationship?

10. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 4 Quiz (2 Sets) (Ash) COM 200 Week 5 Assignment Conflict Management PowerPoint (2 PPT) • Grade Details • 1. Question : Which sentence is the best paraphrase of the statement, “I might as well drop out of school; I failed another test today.” • 2. Question : The theory stating that, as individuals deepen their relationships with each other, they peel layers of themselves away to reveal increasingly personal information, is known as: • Create a plan to manage conflict in your personal life that addresses the following: • · How does conflict occur? What are the common characteristics of conflict? What are the different conflict types? • · Summarize each conflict management styles. Discuss how each style applies to different conflict scenarios.

11. COM 200 Slingshot Academy / ashcom200.com COM 200 Week 5 DQ 1 Unprofessional Work Environments (Ash) COM 200 Week 5 DQ 2 The Influence of Mediated Communication (Ash) • Unprofessional Work Environments • One of the most frustrating situations in the professional world is to work with someone who is not professional in their job. This often makes it a very disheartening work environment because of the low level of professionalism. • The Influence of Mediated Communication • Social media (e.g., email, blogs, Facebook, Skype, Twitter) has played a major role in changing the way that we all engage in interpersonal communication. As we have learned this week, this form of communication through electronic media is referred to as mediated communication.

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