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2. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Entire Course (Ash Course) COM 200 Week 1 Article Critique Masking Poor Communication (2 Papers) (Ash Course) • 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 • COM 200 Week 3 DQ 1 Everyone Has a Culture • 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

3. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Week 2 Assignment Talking Styles (2 Papers) (Ash Course) COM 200 Week 2 DQ 1 Improving Verbal Communication (Ash Course) • Article Critique: Talking Styles • Use the ProQuest database to locate and read the article entitled, “Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance”. Then, visit the Language Style Matching website and, using sample written communication between you and another person, follow the directions on the website to retrieve your language style matching score. • 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. The author also mentions ways in which you can improve your verbal communication. Explain how you will use these improved skills to make your verbal communication more effective.

4. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Week 2 DQ 2 Nonverbal Miscommunication (Ash Course) COM 200 Week 2 Quiz (Ash Course) • 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. This tends to happen quite often in intercultural communication situations (when we are communicating across different cultures). • 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.

5. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Week 3 Assignment (Final Paper Outline Rough Draft for Letter of Advice) (Ash Course) COM 200 Week 3 Assignment Article Critique Self-Disclosure, Gender, and Communication (2 Papers) (Ash Course) • Final Paper Outline • Review the Final Paper instructions in Week Five. Then, visit the Ashford Writing Center, within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, and review the “Sample: Outline.” Format your outline for the Final Paper according to the “Sample: • Article Critique: Self-Disclosure, Gender, and Communication • Review the article entitled, “Can We Talk? Researcher Talks about the Role of Communication in Marriages,” from the ProQuest database found in the Ashford Online Library. Write a one-page paper (excluding title and reference pages) about your thoughts on this article. In your paper, be sure to address the following:

6. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Week 3 DQ 1 Everyone Has a Culture (Ash Course) COM 200 Week 3 DQ 2 Willingness to Listen (Ash Course) • 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. Take some time to write about your own culture and share with us what makes you who you are. Try to not focus on just one aspect of yourself, but try to utilize as many cultural elements as possible. • 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. Go to the Willingness to Listen website and complete the “Willingness to Listen Measure.” Follow the directions on the website to score your results. Based on your results, do you have a high, moderate, or low willingness to listen to others?

7. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Week 4 Assignment Interpersonal Conflict in Film (2 Papers) (Ash Course) COM 200 Week 4 DQ 1 Empathy (Ash Course) • Assignment. • Interpersonal Conflict in Film • Choose one (1) movie from a list provided below: • Brooks, J. (Director). (2004). Spanglish [Film]. Los Angeles: Gracie Films. • Cohen, B. (Producer), & Mendes, S. (Director). (1999). American beauty [Film]. Los Angeles: Dreamworks • Goldwyn, T. (Director). (2006). The last kiss [Film]. Los Angeles: Dreamworks. • Haggis, P. (Director). (2004). Crash [Film]. Los Angeles: Bob Yari Productions. • 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. One of the major components of emotional intelligence is the ability to empathize with others. First, describe in your own words what it means to have empathy.

8. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Week 4 DQ 2 Attraction in Interpersonal Relationships (Ash Course) COM 200 Week 4 Quiz (2 Sets) (Ash Course) • 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. • 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:

9. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Week 5 DQ 1 Unprofessional Work Environments (Ash Course) COM 200 Week 5 DQ 2 The Influence of Mediated Communication (Ash Course) • 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.

10. COM 200 ASH Course Tutorial COM 200 Week 5 Final Paper Letter of Advice Paper (2 Papers) (Ash Course) • Final Paper: Letter of Advice • Focus of the Final Paper • Imagine that a newly engaged couple hears that you are currently taking a course in Interpersonal Communication and wants advice for their relationship.

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