Interpersonal Communication: Graded Project
Interpersonal Communication
GRADED PROJECT
The graded project is intended to help you integrate the various communication techniques and skills you’ve been practicing and studying. The completed project will give your instructor an accurate gauge by which to measure your understanding and mastery of these important skills.
More importantly, completion of the project gives you the opportunity to apply your new skills in a real-life situation— and perhaps even show off a little in the process!
For your graded project, you have to choose one of two options: write an essay of 500-800 words or write and present a speech of two-to-three minutes. The second option requires the use of equipment which isn’t supplied by the school. As …show more content…
Exactly what can you do to make and keep your nonverbal listening behaviors effective? Also, discuss how you can determine your status and progress toward improvement.
In your final paragraph, discuss your reaction to the activity and analyze your non-verbal listening behaviors. Summarize the insights you have gained about your communication skills. Step 2: Read your essay aloud and listen for areas where you may have missed some words or your sentences are awkwardly constructed. You may want to ask someone to read it to you exactly as you have written it. Listen for clear, logical flow of your ideas and discussion. Edit your essay carefully according to the standard conventions for academic compositions: coherent paragraph development, varied sentence structure, correct grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation. Remember to use the pronouns I, me, and my, since you are writing about your own experience from your point of view. Also, use the past tense for your verbs. Further revise and edit according to the evaluation criteria given …show more content…
You explain why you think these are weak and/or strong skills for you. For each weak area, you describe a specific way to improve that non-verbal listening behavior as well as how you will determine the level of improvement. For each strong and effective area identified, you describe a specific way to maintain that behavior as well as how you will determine that it is still a strong point for you.
Conclusion (10 points)
You provide closure for the reader by reflecting on your experience and sharing insights you gained about your communication skills. Grammar, sentence structure, and mechanics (15 points)
Your essay is free of errors in grammar (especially verb tense), sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation.
Format (10 points)
You include the Project Sheet. Your essay uses the assigned font, is double spaced, and includes the required heading on each page.
Step 3: Type the final draft of your essay using font Times
New Roman, size 12. Include the following information at the top of each page of your document. The best way
GRADED PROJECT
The graded project is intended to help you integrate the various communication techniques and skills you’ve been practicing and studying. The completed project will give your instructor an accurate gauge by which to measure your understanding and mastery of these important skills.
More importantly, completion of the project gives you the opportunity to apply your new skills in a real-life situation— and perhaps even show off a little in the process!
For your graded project, you have to choose one of two options: write an essay of 500-800 words or write and present a speech of two-to-three minutes. The second option requires the use of equipment which isn’t supplied by the school. As …show more content…
Exactly what can you do to make and keep your nonverbal listening behaviors effective? Also, discuss how you can determine your status and progress toward improvement.
In your final paragraph, discuss your reaction to the activity and analyze your non-verbal listening behaviors. Summarize the insights you have gained about your communication skills. Step 2: Read your essay aloud and listen for areas where you may have missed some words or your sentences are awkwardly constructed. You may want to ask someone to read it to you exactly as you have written it. Listen for clear, logical flow of your ideas and discussion. Edit your essay carefully according to the standard conventions for academic compositions: coherent paragraph development, varied sentence structure, correct grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation. Remember to use the pronouns I, me, and my, since you are writing about your own experience from your point of view. Also, use the past tense for your verbs. Further revise and edit according to the evaluation criteria given …show more content…
You explain why you think these are weak and/or strong skills for you. For each weak area, you describe a specific way to improve that non-verbal listening behavior as well as how you will determine the level of improvement. For each strong and effective area identified, you describe a specific way to maintain that behavior as well as how you will determine that it is still a strong point for you.
Conclusion (10 points)
You provide closure for the reader by reflecting on your experience and sharing insights you gained about your communication skills. Grammar, sentence structure, and mechanics (15 points)
Your essay is free of errors in grammar (especially verb tense), sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation.
Format (10 points)
You include the Project Sheet. Your essay uses the assigned font, is double spaced, and includes the required heading on each page.
Step 3: Type the final draft of your essay using font Times
New Roman, size 12. Include the following information at the top of each page of your document. The best way