Journal of Contemporary European Research Summary

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Journal of Contemporary European Research Summary

Styles of negotiations”

DEFINITION: a brief definition of the key term followed by the APA reference for the term; this does not count in the word requirement.

SUMMARY: Summarize the article in your own words- this should be in the 150-200 word range. Be sure to note the article’s author, note their credentials and why we should put any weight behind his/her opinions, research or findings regarding the key term.

ANALYSIS: Using 300-350 words, write a brief analysis, in your own words of how the article relates to the selected chapter Key Term. An analysis is not rehashing what was already stated in the article, but the opportunity for you to add value by sharing your experiences, thoughts and opinions. This is the most important part of the assignment.

Communication Relationship Analysis

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Communication Relationship Analysis

Take extensive notes during the film. This will help you complete the rest of the project. After viewing the film, identify unit one concepts that you think were displayed in the film. Use your text, lecture notes and the study guide. Use a minimum of 5 different concepts. A list of permitted concepts is included at the end of this information sheet.

For each concept:

  1. Provide a definition from either the text or lecture pages (one sentence is enough).
  2. Include the page number where it is found in the text or indicate it is from the lecture pages, etc.
  3. Follow each definition with a detailed example from the film. Include a detailed description of the scene, characters, and situation to explain and support why you feel it demonstrates the term or concept that you identified. Specifically explain why the example from the film matches the definition of the concept being used. Know the names of the characters in the film. Please do not summarize or review the film. I’ve seen it. If you include the plot or any logistics (actors, director, producer, dates, etc) or indicate whether you like the film or not you will lose 10% from your overall grade
  4. For your individual portion pick 5 of the following: Besides that plz take a note about social comparison, influence on identity, and self-fulfilling prophecy. Therefore, total 8 concepts that you need to work on due to watching and taking note about movie.
  5. Concepts from Unit 1 to be used:

  6. INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION

    • metacommunication
    • why we communicate
    • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

    (if you use any of the above concepts be sure to clearly define interpersonal communication)

    SELF-CONCEPT

    • the self-concept cycle
    • reflected appraisal
    • social comparison
    • influences on identity
    • self-fulfilling prophecy

    (if you use any of the above concepts be sure to clearly define self-concept)

    COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE

    • appropriateness
    • effectiveness
    • ethics

    (if you use any of the above concepts be sure to clearly define communication competence)

Week 4 Watching Live Games of the Los Angeles Chargers Letter

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Week 4 Watching Live Games of the Los Angeles Chargers Letter

You work for the Los Angeles Chargers as the Vice President of Customer Loyalty. Your job is to sell season tickets to those who can afford them, or “ticket bundles” (two-, three-, and four-game packages) as well as limited-edition merchandise (special jerseys featuring Justin Herbert and other items).

Furthermore, your goal is to build a relationship with your fan base, which also is your customer base. The letter you are sending out by email or direct mail (meaning “snail mail” through the USPS) is based on your database of people who have “opted in” to receive by providing their email (and home/office) address in order to join the Chargers fan base, OR they have previously purchased tickets from your office.

Therefore, you want to continually “upsell” these people and get them to attend all home games, or at least some, for the 2021 season.

So, your sales letter should highlight how exciting the new season – with a new coach, a new stadium and a dynamic young quarter in Herbert – will be and why “YOU” (the fan) should be there.

As discussed in Week 4, you must follow the A-I-D-A structure in your sales letter – that is Attention – Interest – Desire – Action.

Make sure you make the great offer – discounts, incentives, deliveries – by the third paragraph (the central selling theme that is “desire”).

The key here is to be short, concise and to the point. All these mean the same thing. In other words, “use only four words when others use seven.” Be brief!

BUT…get all your points across in the proper paragraphs. And follow the proper procedure for a sales letter or a direct marketing piece discussed in the Week 4 Module.

Address your letter to:

Tom Jacobson or Janet Jacobson

1422 Santa Catalina Way

Los Angeles, CA 10110

Sign your letter as:

your name

Vice President of Customer Loyalty

The Los Angeles Chargers (make sure to include your team logo at the top of the page; that is known as the “letterhead logo”).All of this must go on ONE PAGE ONLY.

Personal Construction of Gender Analysis

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Personal Construction of Gender Analysis
Analysis Paper I: The Personal Construction of Gender: Apply course readings and discussion to identify and examine the social construction of your own unique gender identity. How were your beliefs about gender constructed? Include specific observations and descriptions. Remember, that there is not one gendered experience, rather gender is influenced by race, social class, etc. Your goal in this application is to answer the questions of what you have learned regarding how gender is constructed, and how that construction influences your world view and expectations. As you do so, you must incorporate material from Chapter 2 of the text and other assigned readings.

Levity Effect

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Levity Effect

In addition to writing and speaking well, the professional world demands that you read, understand, and assimilate a wide variety of information. Often we can gain valuable insights by broadening our focus and exploring the many issues that affect our professional activities. Since this is a course in professional communication, it is essential that we pay some attention to the broad ways our culture generates, organizes, and delivers large quantities of information. Each of the book review selections have been chosen to give us some interesting perspectives on those communication dynamics. You will be responsible for reading and reporting on one book. The syllabus lists the titles you have to choose from on the date that book review/report will be due.

The assignment will consist of two parts:

Individually, due Monday (midnight eastern time) before your presentation:

(1) Design and compose a short written report (2-3 pages, single-spaced, memo format) that:
(a) summarizes the book;
(b) discusses the book’s relevance to professional communication;
(c) discusses the book’s central insights; and
(d) provides a recommendation for the book’s use and applications.

Innovation and Current Trends in Communications Essay

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Innovation and Current Trends in Communications Essay

Each essay answer should consist of at least 500 words and should be written in APA format.

1. Please explain how social media has the potential to blur communication boundaries. After you explain this, please offer anecdotal examples from your own experiences to help illuminate this issue.

3. Please explain how the “Attention Economy” helps us to understand the challenges facing contemporary advertising and marketing. Your answer should demonstrate an understanding of the attention economy, and it should be supported by examples.

4. Please explain the differences between product integration and product placement. Use examples to support your explanation. Also: Please explain how the contemporary communication and media landscape makes these innovative strategies so necessary. Your answer should offer several characteristics of the contemporary landscape to support this answer.

5. Please explain how innovative communication technologies have transformed news. How are new organizations using these contemporary media platforms? How are news audiences using these platforms? How have innovative platforms changed the relationship between news organizations and the public?

7. Please explain copyright and fair use and explain how discussions of them relate to the Internet – particularly in terms of potential pitfalls and litigation. How has the very nature of the Internet exacerbated debates over copyright. Use specific examples to support your answer.

Conflict management style influence on decision-making

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Week 7 Individual Research Topic – Conflict management style influence on decision-making

  • Assignment type: Individual Assignment
  • The purpose of this writing assignment is to explore the effects of group conflict management styles on the effectiveness of group decision making or the group decision-making process.
  • See specific format guidelines, other than APA, in the last section below.

REQUIRED SECTIONS AND COMMENTS

The paper will contain these sections/content and will adhere to APA style and format, and grammar and spelling will be of graduate-level quality. See specific format guidelines, other than APA, in the last section below.

Title Page

Table of Contents

Literature Review

  • Literature Review. Each student will search the available/relevant literature to examine the effect of conflict management styles on a group’s decision-making. This review of the literature will be summarized and reported in the paper. The literature review must contain at least 8 (eight) sources from outside the assigned readings. If you have never written a Literature Review, an excellent website to read through is https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-a-literature-review. Your literature review’s main focus must be in keeping with paragraph 3, the first two bullets, of the website web page above. I have provided two examples of only the literature review. They can be found here, Example 1.docx, Example 2.docx. 

Discussion

  • Address the following in your response to this assignment:
    • Define and discuss conflict management styles – focusing on managing conflicts within a group situation.
    • Define and discuss decision-making. Do not elaborate on the higher-level topic of problem-solving (decision-making is a process within problem-solving).
    • Identify and discuss at least three (3) different conflict management styles used within groups and the relationship between the three styles and decision making.

Findings/Conclusions

    • From your review and discussion/analysis of the literature, how does conflict management styles influence or affect a group’s decision-making? Be specific in your response. If you find in the research that conflict management styles influence group decision-making positively, then explain how group conflict management styles enhance the effectiveness of group decision making. If you find an alternate point of view in the literature, explain the alternative positions in your findings. No new material not addressed in the discussion section is included in the findings/conclusions section. 

 

 

Format guidelines for both papers

  • Font: Times New Roman 12
  • Line Spacing: Double line spacing; do not use extra space between paragraphs or between sections
  • Paragraphs: Indent (5 spaces) first line of each new paragraph
  • Page Margins: 1 inch margins top/bottom/sides
  • Citations and References: References are included as the last page of a paper and are in APA format (see Chapter 7 in your APA Manual). Citations to the references are included in the paper and are in APA format (see Chapter 6 in your APA Manual). Several excellent writing and APA resources can be found on this webpage in the course.
  • Page Limit:  The response to the case and research topic will be limited to 10 pages. The 10-page limit does not include the Title (Executive Summary of the Case Paper), Table of Content, and References pages.

 

 

 

 

WEEK 7 INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PAPER RUBRIC

Max Points 12

  A Level Superior (10.8-12) B Level Satisfactory (9.6-10.68) C Level Poor (0-9.48)
ORGANIZATION, LOGICAL FLOW, REQUIRED COMPONENTS (MC=1)

 

 

 The paper is superiorly well-organized and easy to follow.

It contains all the required components as outlined in the writing assignment requirements.

 The paper is satisfactorily organized and easy to follow.

 

 

It contains most of the required components, as outlined in the writing assignment requirements.

 

 The paper is poorly organized. It is

hard to follow.

 

It is missing all or several of the required components as outlined in the writing assignment requirements.

 
DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE APPLICATION (MC=1) It superiorly demonstrates a thorough understanding of discipline theories and concepts presented in the course and relevant to the assignment criteria.

Exhibits a superior ability to apply theories to the context of the assignment.

Superiorly demonstrates an integration of current learning with prior learning to evidencing a comprehensive understanding of the subject.

It superiorly demonstrates ability to analyze and synthesize communication and/or conflict resolution concepts to expand understanding or create new knowledge.

 

 It demonstrates a satisfactory understanding of discipline theories and concepts presented in the course, and

relevant to the assignment

criteria.

 

Exhibits a satisfactory

ability to apply theories to the context of the assignment.

 

Satisfactorily demonstrates an integration of current learning with prior learning, evidencing a satisfactory understanding of the subject.

 

It satisfactorily demonstrates the

ability to analyze and

synthesize communication and/or conflict resolution concepts to expand understanding or create new knowledge.

 

 It poorly demonstrates a basic understanding of discipline theories and concepts presented in the course or relevant to the assignment criteria.

 

 

 

 

Poorly exhibits a poor ability to apply theories within the context of the assignment.

 

Poor or little

integration of current learning with prior learning demonstrates a shallow or poor understanding of the subject.

 

It poorly demonstrates the

ability to analyze and

synthesize communication and/or conflict resolution concepts to expand understanding or create new knowledge.

 

 

 

 
LITERATURE REVIEW (MC=4) Literature Review is superior

and consists of at least eight (8) sources from outside

the assigned readings providing a full supporting background for the Discussion of the assigned Conflict Management Topics. The Literature Review superiorly complies with the following stated requirement “the  https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-a-literature-review. The focus of your literature review should be in keeping with paragraph 3, the first two bullets, of the website webpage above.”

 

 

 Literature Review is satisfactory

and consists of six (6) sources from outside

the assigned readings providing a full supporting background for the Discussion of the assigned Conflict Management Topics. The Literature Review satisfactorily complies with the following stated requirement “the  https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-a-literature-review. The focus of your literature review should be in keeping with paragraph 3, the first two bullets, of the website webpage above.”

 

 Literature Review is poor

and consists of less than six (6) sources from outside

the assigned readings providing a full supporting background for the Discussion of the assigned Conflict Management Topics. The Literature Review poorly complies with the following stated requirement “the  https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-a-literature-review. The focus of your literature review should be in keeping with paragraph 3, the first two bullets, of the website webpage above.”

 
DISCUSSION (MC=4) Discussion superbly addresses each of the three areas listed below and provides excellent and consistently germane support from the literature review:

o Define and discuss conflict management styles – focusing on managing conflicts within a group situation.

o Identify and discuss at least three (3) different conflict management styles used within groups.

o Define and discuss decision-making.

The paper does not elaborate on the higher-level topic of problem-solving (decision-making is a process within problem-solving).

 

 Discussion satisfactorily addresses each of the three areas listed below and provides good and  germane support from the literature review:

 

o Define and discuss conflict management styles – focusing

on managing conflicts within a group situation.

 

o Identify and discuss at least three (3) different conflict

management styles used within groups.

 

o Define and discuss decision-making.

 

 

The paper does not elaborate on the higher-level topic of problem-solving (decision-making is a process within problem-solving).

 

 Discussion poorly addresses each or some of the three areas listed below and provides poor support from the literature review:

 

 

o Define and discuss conflict management styles – focusing

on managing conflicts within a group situation.

 

 

o Identify and discuss at least three (3) different conflict

management styles used within groups.

 

o Define and discuss decision-making.

 

 

The paper does elaborate on the higher-level topic of problem-solving (decision-making is a process within problem-solving).

 
FINDINGS/CONCLUSIONS & OTHER ITEMS (MC=2) Findings/Conclusions are logical and appropriate, and more than superiorly  address how conflict management styles influence or affect a group’s decision-making and as specified in the requirements document.

Paper superiorly follows all format guidelines, as stated in writing assignment guidance. Paper has few to no grammatical or spelling errors.

The entire paper meets the APA guidelines.

 

 Findings/Conclusions are logical and appropriate, and more than satisfactorily  address how conflict management styles influence or affect a group’s decision-making and as specified in the requirements document.

Paper satisfactorily follows all format guidelines, as stated in writing assignment guidance. The paper has some grammatical or spelling errors.

Most of the paper meets APA guidelines.

 

 Findings/Conclusions are logical and appropriate, but  less than satisfactorily  address how conflict management styles influence or affect a group’s decision-making and as specified in the requirements document.

Paper poorly follows all format guidelines, as stated in writing assignment guidance. Paper has many grammatical or spelling errors.

Much of the paper meets APA guidelines.

 
      Total Score

 

 

 

 

 

Managing Resources Discussion

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Managing Resources Discussion

Your team has been humming along for a little over a week now. The conflicts that appeared last week seem to have subsided. However, your supervisor has just informed you that the deadline for completing your team’s goal has been moved up by two weeks. You now have less time to complete the same amount of work. Your supervisor has asked for a short summary on your plan for achieving the goal within your shortened timeline.

Write a 350- to 525-word summary on how you will manage the team’s resources in the face of these new timelines. Answer the following questions in your summary:

  • How many people are on your team? What are their roles? What are their skill sets? How can these be rearranged to meet the new requirements?
  • Are there enough human resources to complete the project two weeks earlier? If not, how can you increase the team’s capacity?
  • Are there aspects of the project that can be condensed or skipped? What are the implications of skipping or condensing tasks?
  • Are there costs to be considered with these changes?
  • How can you leverage what you’ve learned about solving problems in teams to meet the new project requirements?
  • How do you intend to communicate the new requirements to the team in order to gain their buy-in?

Individualism and Collectivism Discussion

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Individualism and Collectivism Discussion

Watch this video and then respond to the following prompts:

Everything you always wanted to know about culture | Saba Safdar | TEDxGuelphU (Links to an external site.) Everything you always wanted to know about culture | Saba Safdar | TEDxGuelphU

Prompts (please respond writing a min. of 500 words in total):

(1) What are your overall thoughts of Saba Safdar’s TED Talk?

(2) Where do your views of culture come from? How do you know this? Think honestly and deeply about this question.

(3) What are a few of the reasons why foreigners view the culture of the United States differently than those born and raised within the United States?

For these next two questions, you will need to conduct additional research to find the answers. Be sure to cite your sources (include these references at the end of your document).

(4) What does individualism vs. collectivism mean? And, where does the United States rank on this cultural dimension?

(5) What are the pros and cons of individualism for the culture of the United States?

*Once you have posted to the discussion board please comment on at least 3 classmates’ posts. Since your classmates’ post will include responses to multiple questions you may choose which question you respond to. As always, please be respectful and open-minded with your responses.

Why Should the USPS Stay Public

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Why Should the USPS Stay Public

3 full pages single spaced on why the United States postal service should remain public it is a debate so please make the essay in a format for a debate.