18 Jan The communication example

WRTG394 Advanced Business Writing

Week 1 Assignment

Communication Inhibitors Report

In Writing Assignment #1, you will identify various communication inhibitors in the context of your workplace or community, prepare a table with descriptions of the inhibitors, and write a brief summary rating the effectiveness of communication in the chosen context. The analysis you prepare for this report might pave the way for your final paper, the Research-Based Report.

Writing Assignment #1

Communication Inhibitors Analysis

Summary of assignment

• Task: For this assignment, you are asked to collect real-life examples of barriers

(inhibitors) to communication that occur in your work or community environment. You

will describe them, define them, justify them in a table, and then use them to rate your

organization’s communication effectiveness.

• Length: The assignment has four parts. Details on word count are provided below and

in the following pages.

o Part I of this assignment will be 200-250 words

o Part II is a list of definitions. The definitions in this section should be about 30-

40 words each.

o Part III is a table with short examples, names, and justifications. The word count

will vary.

o Part IV will be 175-250 words.

• Format: you will not cite sources in this paper, so you will not use any particular

citation style. In writing up the assignment, please follow the template given on page 2.

Reading Material to Draw Upon for this Assignment:

For this assignment, you will want to draw on the following reading materials about communication

inhibitors.

• “Management Study Guide: 10 Barriers to Communication” by the MSG Team

• “Physical Barriers in Communication” by Rahul Pandita

• “The Barriers to Effective Communication” by Rupal Jain

The 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

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Template for this Assignment

Your text should be single-spaced and in 12-point font. Please use the following template when

completing this assignment. Details on each part of the assignment are provided on pages 3-4.

I. Description of community setting, including a description of the 3-4 communication

inhibitors that occur in that setting (200-250 words):

II. Definitions of the 3-4 inhibitors:

III. Table of the 3-4 communication samples and the inhibitors they represent:

The communication example

either as a direct quote or

paraphrase

The name of the inhibitor(s)

that the example represents

A justification of your

selection of the inhibitor

IV. Short paragraph rating the organization’s communication effectiveness on a scale of 1