Writing 2111F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Contract Law, Task Management, Nonverbal Communication

• School: Western University
• Department: Writing
• Course: Writing 2111F/G
• Professor: Christopher Lee

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Unit 9:overview of issues in cross-cultural communication brief introduction to assignment #3: a formal report. Read: locker/findlay, chapters 5, 10, and 11; and assignment 3 case: cross-cultural negotiation: americans. Approximately 1250 words excluding front and back matter/40%) due end of term last day of classes. In this unit we will first take an overview of some of the major communication issues raised by the phenomenon of. Globalization," which has inevitably resulted in the need for increased communication across cultural and linguistic boundaries, both between and increasingly within countries and even organizations. This overview will be followed by a brief introduction to assignment #3. Even a cursory reading of chapter 5 in our text will convey the basics of the most important ideas. It is indeed rather self-evident that even within, say, Canada messages can be misconstrued if a writer does not take care to try to draft giving due regard to cultural and other sensitivities.