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WRTG394 Advanced Business Writing

Week 1 Discussion

DQ1 Considering communication barriers and inhibitors

This discussion topic is designed to help you start thinking about and planning for the first writing assignment, the Communication Inhibitors Report. It includes four very helpful readings about communication barriers/inhibitors.

NOTE: This is not your first writing assignment. This is a discussion topic designed to help you begin thinking about the first writing assignment.

This week, one of your reading materials is titled, “Oral Versus Written Communication.” This reading material lists the eight essential elements of communication. They are as follows:

Source

Receiver

Message

Channel

Feedback

Environment

Context

Interference

In addition, you will want to access and read through the following three articles about communication inhibitors.

MSG Team, “Communication Barriers”

Pandita, “Physical Barriers in Communication”

Jain, “The Barriers to Effective Communication”

These items are available as eReserves in our class in LEO. You can access the articles by taking the following steps:

• click Content

• select Class Resources

• select eReserves

• select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.

• in the list of items that appears, locate the articles and download them

Finally, you will download and read the instructions for your first writing assignment, “Communication Inhibitors Report.”

After you have completed reading “Oral Versus Written Communication,” have reviewed the three articles on communication barriers, and have reviewed the instructions for writing assignment #1, please respond to this discussion topic by completing the following tasks:

1) decide which communication barrier(s) you believe are most powerfully affecting your communication process in the workplace or community scenario that you are considering for your assignment;

2) write a paragraph or two in which you explain how and why you think these barriers are the main culprits negatively affecting successful communication.

3) Offer one classmate feedback on his/her post noting similarities or differences that you find interesting compared to the situation you described in your own post.

DQ2 Communicating a Problem

This discussion topic, which explores business communication as a problem-solving activity, asks you to select and analyze a problem or situation in your workplace or your community. The problem or situation you discuss in this activity could turn out to be the focal point of the capstone assignment in this course, the Research-Based Report. A detailed example of how to respond to this discussion topic is provided.

This discussion topic is designed to help you consider a problem in your workplace or community and to design strategies in communicating about it. This discussion topic might help you approach your final research-based report in WRTG 394.

Please think of an example of a problem or situation in your workplace or your community. Then answer the following four questions with regard to that problem or situation. Post your answers to this discussion topic.

What is the problem or situation?

What are some possible communication strategies in notifying someone about the problem?

What is the best course of action to take in solving the problem?

What is the best way to communicate this problem to the relevant individuals?