[COM 1010] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (84 pages long!)

• School: Baruch College
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COM 1010
• Professor: Agnese Gangadeen

Document Summary

Benefits of the course: benefits of the course: Skills that are prized in the job market. Making a contribution to others: power of public speaking. Speech communication process: speech communication process. Communication is defined as sharing of thoughts, ideas, and feelings so: the communication process they are understandable to others. Speaker generated: situation/environment: time, place, physical and social surroundings, social context, frame of reference. Everythi(cid:374)g filtered through liste(cid:374)er"s fra(cid:373)e of refere(cid:374)ce. No two people have same frame of reference. Involves relationships among ideas, soundness of evidence, differences between fact & opinion: assessing the strengths and weaknesses of an argument, distinguishing facts from opinion. Judging the credibility of sources: assessing the quality of evidence, discerning the relationships among ideas. Ethnocentrism: believi(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures, avoiding ethnocentrism: 53% of human communication time is spent in listening! Yet 75% of our listening time, we are preoccupied, distracted, or forgetful!