Reflection On Interpersonal Communication

A day in the life of a veterinary technician may include answering clients’ questions, providing written or verbal instructions regarding care of an animal, answering the telephone,

* Body Paragraph #3 - Differentiate appropriate levels of self-disclosure and emotional intelligence in various relationships.

Today was the first day of class and it worked fairly well overall. I was primarily concerned with just getting my bearing and understanding how the class would operate, I learned how most of the classes would involve a mix of physical activity, acting practice and a little bit of lecture time. The only actual acting that took place was the reading of the academic honesty pledge. Even so, I still think that I got some good practice and feedback out of it, my pacing is very good and I’m definitely much more confident than I ever was back in high school. I do still need to learn to better prepare myself immediately before I begin my piece. I anticipate I will have a lot more to write about in my next entry when class starts in earnest.

Since the start of this class, I have been reminded again and again that the concepts we are learning can be applied to everyday life. For instance, when we talked about non-verbal communication, I realized that it is impossible to not communicate. There are many activities, other than the use of language, that allow us to draw meaning from something we observe. When my mother widens her eyes at me without stating a word, I understand she is telling me to think twice about the action I’m about to take. It has been great to be able to assign concepts and vocabulary to interpersonal relationships and communication activity that I have been experiencing. Now let me introduce you to my friend Izzy and her boyfriend Ken as I analyze the

After reviewing my journals, I could say that the interpersonal communication skills that I have improved on during this semester is listening skills and negotiation. Listening

I felt like I also improved on my Interpersonal communications skills. Now, I did not have this skill as something to improve on but throughout the course of the semester, I have gotten better about understanding my classmate’s perspectives. For example, during the persuasive speech days, Pauly’s speech was on the gender pay gap. However, his stance was not necessarily the same as mine. I became to feel hostile but I knew that would prevent me from listening to his side unbiasedly. With keeping an open mind, I better understood his side of the argument. Although I may not

Upon receiving my special project, I took the opportunity to approach it as a new challenging task but with the commitment to make it a learning and teaching opportunity for myself. The main objective for this project was to enhance my knowledge and to adhere to what is one of my weaknesses, group presentations. I was provided with the assignment of three post conferences to be completed by the end of the semester. When delegating topics to present, I focused on the tentative schedule and selected one disease to present in each post conference. My selection was based on utilizing the time I had, as a benefit for both students and I to learn something that was involved in our curriculum. The topics I choose to discuss in my post conferences

From my understanding, professional communication, whether electronically or in person refers to the various forms of responding, writing, speaking and effective listening carried out both in and beyond a workplace. To me, it is the practice of oral, written and interpersonal communication that is complete, accurate and understandable to its audience. Doing this takes research, analysis and the mastering of the three interrelation elements of organization, language and design and illustration. According to professor Lim, one of the main components of this course is to read and write critically, present summaries and arguments using research and analysis and convey thoughts and ideas in a consistent manner. I can confidently say I have accomplished this by taking HIS263. The essay component of this course has allowed me to critically review several historic and scholarly articles and evaluate and summarize the information presented. As well as, make inferences and collect key information from the article

R: The member was fighting with his brother when I first entered the home. Member quickly begin to tell me what happens with I entered. He was upset because his brother hit him. The brother was asked to leave the room and the member quickly calmed down. The member did the check off the worksheet (Why do I get Angry?” He was to explaining why he checked off the things he checked. MHS told the member that there are not right or wrong answers. The member was concerned that he was not checking the right things. It appeared that the member was over analyzing the worksheet. The member wanted MHS to know he really has been trying not to fight with his brother or friends. During role play the member wanted to be the get violent when the scenario

Our ability to communicate well with others is important to personal and professional success. The interpersonal communications course is planned to help us in being familiar with the system of effective, and to assess our own interpersonal ability to sharpen our critical understanding of the communication, also to improve the interpersonal skills. Mainly assess our interpersonal skills and to put in goals for improving our communications ability. To development of self-concept and identity are examined as basics for understanding personal communication. We explore our own communication behaviors and to identify areas of personal strengths and

While with a group of friends, they notice I had gotten quiet and ask me for why was I not talking anymore it was because I had found a better research topic that I could work with, I told them. Picking a topic that I am familiar with and can relate to made deciding what sources I should use and the understanding of where the articles views are coming form much easier. I started over on researching how to construct the paper, going back over YouTube and constantly rereading the handouts and articles.

Throughout the Oral and Interpersonal Communication course my fellow classmates and I were required to present on a variety of subjects. For the most part, we were adept when it came to our subjects since we had a general understanding of them, but not enough to be considered true expects. Because of this, I found that the 5th guideline Celeste Headlee outlined related closely to my experiences in the class. In this point, Celeste noted that if a person does not have enough experience to answer a question or make a statement authoritatively on a given topic, then they should admit that they are not an expert or pass it on to someone who is. With this in mind, during the persuasive and informational presentation questions were asked that the presenters simply couldn’t answer. Consequently, the presenters understood when they couldn’t give an answer since they no longer had any references to back them up.

Today I worked with Level C again. During my last class, I found out that each week the lessons focus on different topics. This week’s topic is communication. For this lesson the teacher decided on phone calls for different purposes such as booking appointments, inviting someone, accepting or declining invitations, etc. as well as the non-interactive aspect of modern communication like leaving a voicemail. She wanted to do a simulation exercise. As usual, she started with giving them some vocabulary words. The students were then divided into pairs and given some handouts with instructions. There were six pairs. Each pair was to create phone conversations based on the situations listed in the handouts. They would later be called in front of the class where the teacher would pick a situation from the list and they had to act it out. To demonstrate what we wanted them to do, the teacher and I did one of the exercises. We sat with our backs to each other and acted out a phone conversation. Then we moved around the class helping the students understand the background that was given for each situation and to find the right words that they wanted to use. We corrected their grammar and pronunciation along the way. We let the students perform the first few exercises sitting in their own seats to make them comfortable, but for the last six situations, they came in front of the class to perform. They found it very funny when I made the ringing sound for the first pair, but then they

Since I was a child, I have naturally suppressed my emotions. Perhaps it was the way I was raised by my parents or me conforming to societal gender roles as a male, but I have never liked it when people know what I am thinking or feeling. However, as I have grown up and become more aware of my emotional management and intelligence, I started to realize not only the importance of being cognizant of my emotions but also the emotions of others. Therefore, I want to reflect and delve deeper into how I express my emotions and relate to the emotions of my relationship partners, close friends, and family members.

1. I overheard a conversation between a couple, a boy and a girl who I assume are both freshmen. They had gone to highschool together and both came to Syracuse University, they’ve been together for about 2 years - I know this because I was with my friend while this was happening and she peripherally knew the girl in the relationship. In their conversation, the girlfriend complained about how they never see each other anymore, it’s even less than they saw each other in high school even though now they don’t have limitations like curfews and strict school/extracurricular activities to work around. He answered by saying he is very busy with classes and new clubs and it’s hard to find time to spend together. She retorted with the fact that he’s managed to find plenty of time to spend with his new friends, and that their bond should be a stress reliever, not adding more stress to their workloads and the new college environment. I believe that they were really talking about how college has already changed both of them - she clearly wants to continue the relationship and hold on to what they had in high school, whereas he is taking on this whole new world and discovering that there is a life outside of the confines of his hometown. I think that he wants to break up with her, and that’s why he’s only making excuses and defending himself, rather than working to find a solution to the problem. He’s just allowing the distance between him and his girlfriend to run its course until they