Personal Narrative: Improving My Communication

As a student, I am constantly having to view my studies with objectivity, analyze and evaluate a given task using critical thinking, and come up with a solution. Effective communication is one area I need to improve on. Since I have been a stay-at-home mom for the last 13 years, I have had limited experience with business and professional dialogue, and therefore, I am out of practice professionally communicating with

My first main literacy who be my relationship with God, oh how I need him every day, I could write endlessly about this one, I feel strongly about my connection with the father and it makes me happy to even know the enjoy it has bought into my life .Oh how my soul rejoices every time I think about how much I need him every day he is the center of my peace and I could not start my day without him. He knows my name he is definitely my main literacy every day. The next main literacy would be my job and which I need that in order to live in this world and be a productive citizen in this society. To have money to sustain my lifestyle. My final literacy would be my whole family. They mean the world to me, there is nothing more important to me than

In all honesty, I don't remember a lot about becoming literate. I didn't have a special moment or time when I knew that reading or writing going to take me somewhere. According to my mom she started to read to me when I was one, so there wasn't anything that could've excelled me much farther before going into kindergarten. One of the requirements in elementary school was to read every night which I believe was an important factor of me improving my literacy. Reading and writing used to me excite me because I would immerse myself into a book or write a whole new universe on a page. I made reading and writing something personal to me. I now realize that every book and every piece of writing can be worthwhile in one way or another.

The right of passage that is most significant to me is Just Be Yourself. Just Be Yourself is the most significant to me because I relate to it the most. In middle school you sometimes don't feel very comfortable being yourself around others. You're scared you'll get judged and people won't like you for you. That's why Just Be Yourself is such an important passage because it states that you'll eventually find your way and to just be yourself.

My communication with others has been both negative and positive due to this talent. When I was freshman in high school, there was a female junior student that enjoyed picking on me. This caused me great distress, and I was afraid to do anything about it. I hated going to school knowing I could possibly run into this girl and have her start to bully me. One-day, school was just getting out, and she made an offensive remark to me, which made me realize I had enough. I stood up for myself and said something back to her, as I was tired of dealing with the conflict. To my surprise, that was all I need to do, from that day forward she left me alone. Ryan, a co-worker, sees the positive side of my harmony talent with me at work. He remarked that

Business Communication 2205 has allowed me to gain perspective on different criteria and elements that important for effective communication. For example, being introduced to the PAIBOC model has become an important tool in my communication skills as it assists me in the organization important information and details for the construction of a message. Along side the PAIBOC Model, I have gained insight on the importance of knowing your audience. For written tasks within and outside of this course, I have found that completing an audience analysis guides me in the direction of including relevant information that will be of importance to my audience and have them engaged in the message I am proposing. Additionally, being taught the different component included in creating positive and negative messages has become of value to me as I can use these new tool when creating a professional resume/cover letter, conducting an email to a superior as well as creating messages that approach

The Personal Communication Development Plan part 2 dated June 1, 2014, allowed me to outline the areas that I wanted to improve, including an action plan on how to meet those self-defined goals. Specifically, I outlined audience analysis, communication strategy, written communication, oral communication, and visual communication. I’ve made progress in audience analysis by assessing the audience that I am communicating with and choosing the most effective communication style, medium, and how the content of the message should be organizational. Communication strategy is an ongoing process as I continue to make conscious communication plans to ensure that the correct message is being delivered. Written communication goes hand in hand with communication

Communicating nonverbally with every person I came across and verbally with every other person I saw was an eye-opening experience. It altered the way that I viewed how people communicate with each other on a daily basis. As a result of my verbal greetings, people gave me a mix of responses varying from happy to angry. Most of the reactions toward me saying “hi” or “how’s it going” were positive. Many people simply greeted me in a similar way and we went our separate ways. It seemed like when I was walking around outside on campus that all I got was a short reply back. But when I greeted people in my dorm, people were more friendly and welcoming to have a conversation. By saying “hello”, it opened the chance to talk with people on my floor

Throughout my college career Communication Studies has always been what I anticipated my job field to be in due to my interest in public speaking as well as the interpersonal skills that I gained when working and talking to people in previous jobs as well as in classes. When looking to take on an internship I knew that I wanted to work in a field that required being face-to-face with clients and that is why I chose to accept the internship at World Class Solutions in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania as a Marketing Communication Assistant. When interviewing for this position I loved the atmosphere as well as the people that work for this company as they were so friendly and welcoming.

My voice is heard through my writing; although seemingly silent within the language of ink veiled across my paper, it is powerful, deafening, resilient. I speak my mind without speaking, and it is, to me, somehow worth more than any vibration of vocal cords. When writing, I am free; free to clearly express thoughts that usually turn into a muddled mess on my tongue; free to “say” what I wish; free to be

“Tienes que leer y escribir en ingles,” (I had to read and write in English), said my father. People would think, “Well you have an advantage because you speak Spanish.” Well, it was easier said than done, growing up in two different worlds it was difficult my vocabularies would mix up and I would end up making a new tongue twister. Therefore, I was not fortunate with my literacy in any aspect. I would get called dumb since I would not pronounce every vowel, word nor consonants correctly. I had a rough time in elementary school because I was a “joke”, but that did not stop me from learning I taught myself how to read and write in English.

Have I ever been afraid to speak? Not often am I asked that question and to little surprise to anyone who knows me will not be surprised when I answer no. In general I am never afraid to speak, to with hold your voice you can cause harm and a great disservice to those around who can hear you.

Yes, I do think that my speaking has improvement because before that it would take me a long time to understand than interpret the words so I would be able to say it in my own words. Also in the past we never actually had a speaking assessment and I think that this one was more about the book compared to what we were learning as in the past all the speaking assessment that I had were about something we learned in school, and they were about he grammer. Most of the previous activities were done in class and were more relied on the interpretation of the words and understanding what someone if saying compared to you speaking it. In addition last year when we had this speaking assessment it was on one of the grammar we learnt in class, and we were given a picture to describe the things that were happening in the picture. I thought that it was more easy that way,

I started playing tennis since I was in elementary school and I have been playing competitively in high school in my schools’ teams. Playing tennis has not only benefited me in term of fitness and health, but it has also taught and allows me to develop my interpersonal skills. Some of the valuable skills I’ve acquired are responsibility, non-verbal communication, and problem-solving.

“The quality of your communication is the quality of your life”-Tony Robbins. How motivating. It should be because Tony Robbins is a very famous and successful motivational speaker. This quote couldn’t be more true. Good communicators have a very successful life and in order to master communication, one must understand communication theory. According to the text, Introducing Communication Theory Analysis and Application, communication is defined as “a social process in which individuals employ symbols to establish and interpret meaning in their environment”. There are many different definitions of communication, but all communication definitions explain the process of transmitting information, the framework of the information, and the effects of that information. Understanding communication theory can be very rewarding and very beneficial to people’s personal and professional lives. It can help with public speaking, interviews, relationships, and so much more. The world is always changing, which means communication is too. Taking a communication theory class helps students make sense of the world around us, express our wants, needs and desires to others in an appropriate manner.