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A few days ago I took a trip to my local mall and took a seat at the food court. My objective was to observe individuals engaging in non-verbal communication and document what I witnessed. After only a few minutes I became aware of a couple sitting within public distance, about 15-20ft away from me. They were having an argument about how the male was being cold and unaffectionate. While observing them I realized they were using various gestures while arguing. I will inform you of what type they were and what they were conveying.

For my S.M.A.R.T. Goals I really was not that successful in completing them. I was successful in getting a good grade in AMST101, becoming more social, and practicing speaking Spanish more often. My current grade in AMST is an 89.67 percent, I am really proud of this accomplishment because the language used in class is very confusing to me but I managed to overcome it and the standards for the writing assignments in this course is set high. In high school and so far still in college, I am shy and introverted. It is something that I have always struggled with especially when I am in an environment full of people. However now I have became friends and made a lot of acquaintances with two people since being in the program. Spanish has always been

I have learned several different things about myself during this writing assignment of compare and contrast. During this assignment I found myself getting extremely excited knowing that I would be able to compare two of my favorite basketball players. While gathering information on Michael Jordan and LeBron James I learned more about these two players than what I had already knew about them.

Growing up an introvert was hard; I would always be the kid who sat in the back and kept her head down waiting for class to end trying to skip out on having to share. Everything about speaking to groups of people was slightly terrifying for me. Whether it was reading my answers out loud in class or even presenting a project to a crowded room it would cause me to have anxiety. I was always like this until my senior year of high school. Senior year truly helped me break out of my shell.

Looking back through all of the assignments, I find out that I have achieved the goal in becoming a better writer. Take a look at my first draft for this class, on Details: Physical Senses, my writing was totally lack of details and it was uninteresting. For example, the opening of my draft, “There is a large fish pond in my hometown. ” I was shocked when I went back and read this draft. This draft was totally lacking of detailed descriptions, and detailed descriptions are very important for the audience to create a vivid image when they are reading the description. However, after your lectures, on Details: Tone and Attitude, Telescoping(zoom in on the subject), Appositive(bring clarity to abstract terms through definition) and Freighting (capture complex and compound reading), I have grown as a writer. I understood the idea that too many short sentences will pause the reader’s

Even as a young kid in elementary school, writing was one of my weakest subjects. I always sighed when one of my teachers mentioned a writing assignment. It started in elementary school and continues to affect me to this day. Starting out my junior year, I was hesitant to have Mr. Zollman as a teacher because I heard he was a tough grader. I soon found out that was true, but he ended up being the most helpful teacher to get me through my writing problems. Mr. Zollman helped me get through my struggles of writing papers, and he taught me to be a stronger writer.

In my analyze essay the first thing I will do for my revision is read over the entire essay to see if I need to add anything or if something need to be erased. Then I plan to have one of my family members or a friend read it over for me to see if I made any mistakes in my writing. I want to make sure that I don't have any grammar so when the other person reads it over they could spot something. Then I will do the reverse outline you give us to check if it flows correctly and to see if I have to rearrange my ideas. I already have done so, I found some of my ideas would be better if I rearrange them. Next, as I was reading over my essay, realize my introduction was not clear so I will have to write a new one. I plan to tell the readers why these

As of November 16, 2017 my teacher Mr. Thoma has given us an assignment that allows us to ponder how much we have improved in the last few months, and has given us an opportunity to reflect about our improvement in writing and write about goals we may have in order to continue improving. He expects us to keep formal writing always and expects that we will continue improving as the year goes on.

In high school, there were three different types of writing assignments we had to complete. The first was analyzing an unseen text, the second was writing an essay based on the theme of two plays, and the last was a creative writing task. For each of them, I took a different approach for coming up with the ideas I was going to write about. The ideas came from research about the topics given, or general themes looked at during class. However, for any writing assignment I would always create an outline first, whether it was an in class essay or an essay written at home. If it was an essay that was written over time, our teacher required us to hand in drafts, and would set aside class time to peer edit. Most of the time the feedback given was

My past experiences with writing have been the many times I practiced improving how I brainstormed my essays throughout high school. What I have enjoyed about writing during those experiences was gathering various examples from literature, culture, or personal experiences, and connecting them together to form the main idea for my essays. What has been less enjoyable about writing essays is trying to form from a blank slate about what the overall message of my essay will be.

Writing has always been a trouble area for me. There have been moments when I just got so frustrated I wanted to give up, especially these past few weeks. My best feedback in high school came from my Mom. She is extremely ill and unable to help me like she wants to while I am going through college. Without her help, I have been struggling with learning different revision strategies and which ones work best for me. Wanting to make her proud made me be more critical of myself which made the struggle worse. Ready to see the disappointment on my Mom's face, I would tell her my grades assignment by assignment. To my surprise, she would have a smile, a hug, and the words,"I'm so proud of you." no matter what grade I said. Giving up is no longer going

Nonverbal communication covers all aspects of communication beyond words. It is anything from body gestures to the way words are spoken. The tone, demeanor, hidden meaning behind words, mix that with body language and what is creates in nonverbal communication elements. Even clothes and personal appearance can send a nonverbal message. Nonverbal communication accounts for nearly 65-93% communication means (Wood, 2014). One area where nonverbal communication sent a negative, incorrect message is the movie Erin Brockovich. The clothing of the main character sent the message that she was uneducated, white trash. This could not be further from the truth. She was an intelligent, single mother who saw a problem where nobody else did.

Though i plan to finish my assignment before time, there are some things in life which we don't expect. I write here , because i feel that learning journal is like my friend where i can express what i feel. Sometimes, i just feel that un lucky when some big problems occur in my life. But starting from the day i start at University of People, there was a lot of problem but i faced it and win it. And that one motivate me that this problem will pass and i should not give up to read and study . That is why i am still studying in University of People.

The nonverbal communication theory is a broad theory with many smaller parts to better explain it. In short, the nonverbal communication encompasses all other behaviors other than the spoken word. This includes kinesics, citing gestures, body orientation, vocal qualities, haptics, and personal space. The main components of nonverbal communication which will be covered will be citing gestures, vocal qualities and kinesics.

“Don’t you roll your eyes at me young lady!” my mother always use to tell me. Nonverbal communication is one of the easiest ways to communicate how you are feeling and can be one of the hardest to read. It is believed that up to 93 percent of all communication is nonverbal. Dr. Albert Mehrabian, author of Silent Messages (1971), had conducted many studies to find that 7 percent of communication is through words, 38 percent through vocal elements, and 55 percent through nonverbal elements such as facial expressions, posture and gestures. Subtracting the 7 percent as vocal communication, and adding the other 55 percent and 38 percent which gives us the 93 percent statistic. Nonverbal cues are the most critical aspect of communication. To