HOUSTON SPCH1311 All Assignments Latest 2019 February (No 6 & 9 Assignment)

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 1 Seven Concepts

Explain the seven concepts that help us distinguish social media from face-to-face communication. Provide an example of how the social media you use reflects these seven concepts.

 

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 2 Perception

This assignment was locked Feb 25, 2019 at 11:59pm.

Look at the four pictures provided.

Write briefly what you think about each person based solely on your initial reaction to the photo. (Mean or nice, what do they do for a living?

Next look up each person (google) and find out if your perception is correct.

You must write how you felt, once you looked each person up.

Sundar Pichai.jpeg

Joseph Hazelwood.jpeg

Mary Kay.jpg

carmelo anthony.jpeg

Mary Kay Letourneau

Joseph Hazelwood

Carmelo Anthony

SundarPinchai

 

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 3 Listening Barriers

What are some of the barriers to effective listening? For each barrier, discuss a strategy you could use to overcome it.

 

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 4 The Last Lecture

Watch the video clip below.

Link (Links to an external site.)

Minimize Video

Answer all five questions below.

1.     What, if anything, makes the speech compelling (beyond the obvious emotional appeal of listening to someone who knows he’s dying)?

2.     Why did Paush eliminate certain topics?

3.     Why did he choose the topics he did?

4.     How does he support his ideas?

5.     What did you learn about speech making from this speech?

 

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 5 Introduction or Conclusion

EITHER

Based on the thesis statement listed below, write an introduction. Your introduction should appropriately integrate/include the various suggestions for writing introductions described in your text. Thesis statement: “To persuade my audience to join a campus organization because of three benefits.” You can select your own ideas for benefits.

OR

Based on the thesis statement listed below, write a conclusion. Your conclusion should appropriately integrate/address the suggestions about conclusions that are described in your text. Thesis statement: “To inform my audience about the things which make me unique.”

 

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 6 Monroe’s Motivated Infomercial

Describe the five steps in Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. Design an infomercial for a product using the five steps in Monroe’s Motivated Sequence.

 

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 7 The Letter You Will Never Receive

Write a letter to yourself from someone who has wronged you. This is your chance to heal and gain closure. Please open your mind to this assignment, it can be very cathartic.

 

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 8 Rate Yourself

Rate yourself using Burleson and Samter’s definitions of interpersonal skills. Briefly identify at least four of the seven skills, and describe how it applies to you.

 

SPCH1311 Introduction to Communication

Assignment 9 Decision Making

Express a typical decision making method you have used in the small groups to which you belong. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages to this method? Discuss experiences you have each had with different methods of decision making and why you think these methods have been chosen.