COMM 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
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Why: communication keeps us alive, also keeps us functioning as a society, communication impacts everything (you can not not communicate, the act of not communicating can actually communicate (ignoring text message, communicating well is a skill. Saying the right things and reading another person is a skill. It takes time and practice: employers value good communication skills. Human communication: process of managing messages for the purpose of creating shared meaning, a transaction. Messages: verbal or nonverbal; intentional or unintentional, unintentional is when we slip and say things in the heat of the moment, intentional is going into a conversation knowing what your going to say. Channels: the medium through which a message is sent, we only become aware of channels when one or more of them become unavailable, selecting the appropriate channel to communicate is a skill (breaking up with someone) Interference: prevents message from being received, or prevents intended meaning from being understood.
