Citing Correctly

A lot of of the people during the informative speech did not cite their sources in their presentation correctly. I know that people do not  intentionally do this however it is a bad habit that you must break. If you can learn to cite your sources appropriately and constantly you can avoid being accused of plagiarism. In college students can get expelled for not having accurate research credit - surely you do not want to be one of those students!  I found this youtube video to help everyone cite their sources!

Interview Communication

We have for the most part wrapped up all of our informative speeches. I remember that Jose was talking about interview communication which I thought was very interesting. A lot of things he talked about I somewhat had a clear idea until he started talking about researching a company. Of course before you have an interview you go about and find general information about the company, but more extensive the research the better. He mentioned that the interview for the most part wants you to take the lead in the conversation. To me this shows a lot about a person. It can show off your dedication because you already went above and beyond to go and seek the information, it shows your assertiveness and leadership ability because you can take charge of the situation, and it can show off your elegance and charisma in how you handle the situation. All of those underlining messages can help you snag the job.

 

 

Next time I go into an interview I will most certainly try to do as much as I can to research and snag the job!

TV

We had a take home test a few days ago, and one of the questions was to explain why television was not a "window to the world." Television is deffinaley not a window to the world because you get to pick and choose what you want to watch as a viewer. Having choices also brings different networks, different networks target certain audiences - everyone has a niche audience. Also television networks basied on their information of the viewer target certain stories. So for example, if i like to hear about all of the current political or social issues I mi ght tune into world news tonight on abc compared to Inside addition, a television showed based on celeberity drama and gossip. In all reality there no one network or show that will show you a "true" repersentaion of the world beacuse everyone has a different perserpetive but we all have might have the same different one.

Culture Shock

We are still on foucusing on our informative speechs in class, so i'm going to talk about culture shock. My friend is doing her speech on culture shock or something to that extent. With that topic, it made me remeber about the time I went to Dominican Republic, DR, for spring break. I was lucky enough to see both sides of DR beacuse I went with a friend who was from there. While we were there we stayed in a fablous resort, so I was able to experince the true tourist side of it all, however; I also got to experince the real ruggedness of the country. Going into the city to see the "real" DR really shocked me. It was very polluted so it made it hard for me to breath, and there were a ton of stray dogs everywhere. I couldnt imagine seeing all these poor little puppies just roaming the streets. That would never happen in America because we actually care about our pets. The amount of pets I saw uncared for were to the extreme. I remeber asking my friends father what they do to the dogs, and him replying "They feed them food filled with posion so they die." I could not believe it! They should have a spay and nueture program over there! It made me very sad. That was my litttle experince of culture shock with dealing with the little dogs. Here is a picture of a dog I tried to save. It was so cute! Along with other pictures of the inner city I visited.

Research

Use of color in advertising has always been very interesting for me - hence, why i choose it for my research speech. Most people do not know that in my ever so often changing list of majors that marketing was my first choice. I love interacting with people, so marketing was always at the top of my list. I planned on going into marketing and dealing with environmental issues since that is where a lot of marketing jobs are in right now. I a lot of people use that phrase "selling ice to an Eskimo" with me which says a lot. Things that I find interesting when talking about color in advertising is that our eyes are drawn to the colors red and yellow. Car dealers are the first thing that come to mind when I think of an example to go with this topic. For example, ever drive down independence? Ever notice that on all the cars almost all of the numbers are written in yellow? Another example would be McDonald's, not only do they use red and yellow but they use the signature arches.

I think I will do well with this research topic because I did a lot with marketing. Not only did I want to major in it, but I was president of my DECCA, chapter at my high school, so I was in charge of a lot of the projects. I am looking forward to informing the class more on colors and advertising. With every color draws a certain meaning which draws to certain topics which ultimately turns into something you purchase.  

Proximity

In class today we discussed proximity is very interesting actually. In the video above it somewhat touches on the proper elevator etiquette - really who does stand that close to someone like that unless they are together? I know I think about stuff like that all the time. For example, no matter how shallow it may seem, when I see a guy and girl walking together if they are a certain distance from each other you can sometimes tell if they are together, so I will say to myself "wow really?, she/he could do better" etc etc. Also like today in class if I am talking to someone I would like them to be close to me, not too close though because I do tend to get uncomfortable. I do not feel like you are listening to what I am saying or if you even care to! Proximity is very interesting. I can also relate to what Jason was talking about today in class when he discussed about how people in Spain always want to be close to you. My best friend is El Salvadorian and in their culture it is proper to kiss when saying hello, and until this day I always feel so awkward!

Hearing VS Listening

 

"Hearing is the physical act of receiving a sound. We hear all of the noises around us. Listening is the active process of receiving, paying attention to, assigning meaning to, and responding to sounds. Listening is an active process whereas hearing is reflexive."

 

      Many people do not listen. From the quote above, which I got from the Chapter summary, states that listening is the active process of receiving, paying attention to, assigning meaning to, and responding to sounds. Responding to sounds to me is the most important part. Getting feedback, or answers to your questions is the only way you will really know if someone was listening to you! I always seem to wonder if people really are paying attention in our communications class, because when Jason asks us questions or wants us to participate somehow - only few do. Those who do participate seem to be the same ones. Do others know how to actively listen? or Are they just not choosing to? Maybe the can not relate to the topic? but if they can not relate, Why don't they ask questions to try and help them? Everyone can hear. It takes true focus to listen. Listening means you payed attention, attained a sense of meaning, and respond in some sort of way. Take time to think..do you ever really listen..to anything..or anyone? Food for thought.