Conversation Article Reviews Samples For Students

For my discourse analysis, I have chosen the Lapse for Words Transcript since I found it interesting and I believe I can discuss many things through it. It was an interesting conversation since it does happen almost everyday – people dating and breaking over the phone, which of course, since two people conversing couldn’t see each other (speaker and the listener), would imply different things to each other.
Also, the transcription used several overlap symbols, elapsed time, punctuation for intonation, stress (pitch and volume), aspiration, being unsure of accuracy and nonverbal sounds such as breathing and sighing.
First, let ...

Talking to Learn

According to Tanner (2009), there are too many lectures taking place in which learners take a passive listening role. He discourages the teaching approaches used in introductory biology courses that require the student just to listen to the instructors. Many instructors agree that letting students participate during lectures is a good thing. However, they are not sure how to make it happen.
Talking to learn during biology lessons can begin with small Student Talks. This can help build the instructor’s skills in incorporating learners’ participation in the learning sessions. There are two primary reasons talking to learn; is ...

Identification and definitions of major concepts

Listening is an important concept and mostly collaborates with listening concept. In order to interact well in the community, he or she must having listening and talking skills unless under a closed organization where people are not allowed to interact with the outside wild. In the used article, collaboration was the most important talking and listening activity focus. Students engaged in activities that required talking and listening or interacting. Such activities include discursions and presentations (Bearne, 2007).
In order to use all concepts, one must be able to talk and to listen. It is getting information from other parties ...

In the first point of the article, the author says that Talk radio's listeners are disproportionately old and male. I agree with this point because most of the young and medium-aged people are out there working, which means they have less time to listen to talk radio shows. Most young people are interested in reading articles and watching television shows, but not listening to talk radio shows. In radio programs nowadays, most shows are conservative talk programs and political talk shows. The expected audience in political shows is elder people, especially men as women are busy running other errands. ...

Communication CA272

Questions for Discussion
- Discuss how and why a conversational approach to communication could build trust between people? Identity how and why communication may impact the development of peoples’ relationships at work. Give examples to support your answers.
The main advantage of this approach is that the employees do not feel like employees or subordinates who are being ordered to perform a task. Instead they feel that they are being asked their opinion about the job to be done and this sense of participation motivates them to perform better. This motivation in turn assures the leader that the employee ...

Article Critique: Masking Poor Communication

People often assume that close relationships are based on good communication. However, this may not always be true. We develop close relations with others due to different factors and only one of them is good communication. Children are friends with those that they go to school with, adults with some coworkers and those are people that we did not choose to go to school with, or to work with. We are close to them because we spend a lot of time together and share similar interests. In order to understand each other we need something more than closeness, we need ...

The article by Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld is a conversation the authors led with recognized New York chefs Andre Soltner and David Chang. The main topic of the conversation was how the time has changed the face of American cuisine. Andre Soltner mentioned that there was actually no American cuisine in the late sixties, and David Chang agreed that it has probably appeared somewhere in eighties. It has changed a lot since then, but French technique is still basis of cooking in New York City (Patronite & Raisfeld 182).
An important conclusion the interviewed professionals make is that people eat ...

Bruce Bower in his well-written article in “Science Today entitled “Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance” argues that” language style matching” is a communication asset between two people, then the reverse scenario of both employing different communication styles does nothing to help the interpersonal relationship between them. The reason for this is simple and only common sense. When two individuals talk or communicate to each other, then the use of similar language styles is usually a step forward towards better communications. Better communication means better comprehension, better empathy and therefore better quality of interpersonal relationships. So far so good, ...

Summary

This article provides insight regarding the comparison between associations that are highly likely to expose women to the risk of being raped and surroundings where the probability of rape is lower. From the start, the authors observe that people do not understand the rape culture. The article begins the article by presenting information that defines what rape culture is. It presents rape culture as the beliefs and values that change surroundings into areas that are conducive for rapes to occur. The authors imply that a proper understanding of the rape culture plays an important role in changing the attitude ...

Introduction

The article investigates the phenomena of Pragmatic Fossilization about the non-native speakers of English. The aim of the study is to assess the impact of pragmatic markers in speech of native and non-natives speakers of English. The study assessed these in children and adult of both the study groups.

Summary

The phenomenon of “Pragmatic Fossilization” happens in the non-native speakers of English during their learning process. It is defined as the “phenomena by which a non-native speaker systematically uses certain forms inappropriately at the pragmatic level of communication”. Put in simple terms, it is persistence of formal errors by the non-native ...

Wang Yun’s play A Dream of Glory; talks about a woman who wants to become a man and display his powers before the world. Wang Yun, a Chinese dramatist of the eighteenth century, could have been influenced by a number of incidents that took place in China during the century. The patriarchal system must have played a dominant role in eighteenth century China where men had all the liberty to choose the life they wanted while women were confined to domestic roles. As the name of the play signifies, A Dream of Glory can be juxtaposed to the glorious life of men, and ...

Constitutional Law

The terrorist attack that took place on September 11, 2001 in America initiated intensive security measures taken by the government to protect the people and the state. The lack of security policy prior to 9/11 had made an impact on the country’s approach to terrorism since personal liberties and freedom of the people that used to be guaranteed under the Constitution had been compromised. The enforcement of terrorism policies of the country violated the right to privacy of the people through warrantless wiretapping. This involves the creation of the National Security Agency (NSA) Warrantless Wiretapping Program that was ...

Response Paper on a Cultural Studies Approach to Technological Culture

The readings covered this week dealt on the perceptions and judgments associated with technology and culture. My interest in technology is unquestionable and this week reading has given me a chance to explore the relationship the relationships pertaining to this phenomenon. According to technology and culture is of interest because it combines the human perspectives of what technology enables people to execute in everyday lives including the perceptions and judgments of how such undertakings affect them. The book provides a thorough analysis of causality, agency, articulation and assemblage, space, identity, politics, and globalization. All these features illustrate a relationship between technology and ...

Communication: Article Review

“A Better Way to Deliver Bad News” by Jean-François Manzoni

Good communication does not always mean sharing good news. One of the most challenging jobs of a manager is to tell someone that they need to perform better at work. Dispensing criticism to improve the work of employees is one of the most important parts of a manager’s responsibilities. A manager’s performance depends on the work quality of his or her team members. Manzoni (2002) has written a very helpful paper on how managers can do a better job of communicating with employees as well as make the job of ...

Can we Talk? is an interesting article, mainly focussing on the importance of self-disclosure in personal relationships. It makes for interesting reading but while I agree on some of its points, I feel they are over-stated.
I can certainly relate to the subject of self-disclosure in relationships. I have had relationships where the other person almost never spoke about themselves, and this always led to problems. The main difficulty was that without a growing knowledge of the other person, the relationship has little hope of ever developing into something meaningful and lasting.

I agree that self-disclosure is directly related ...

The article "Scientists Talk Privately About Creating A Synthetic Human Genome", written by Andrew Pollack, is about the research made by the author and other scientists in the sphere of sunthetic human genome creation. They have managed to contemplate the human genome fabrication within the modern synthetic biology. They took various forms and components, linked them in order to create differently new forms with the aim of creating the new human DNA by use of chemicals. In general, synthetic biology considers the switches of genes, and the scientists made there investigations within that sphere.
In recent years, instead of ...

The article "Scientists Talk Privately About Creating A Synthetic Human Genome", written by Andrew Pollack, is about the research made by the author and other scientists in the sphere of the coordinated oscillations. They have managed to contemplate the human genome fabrication within the modern synthetic biology. They took various forms and components, linked them in order to create differently new forms with the aim of creating the new human DNA by use of chemicals. In general, synthetic biology considers the switches of genes, and the scientists made there investigations within that sphere.
In recent years, instead of the ...

Communication between partners is an essential part of any marriage. It involves getting to know each other, and creating bonds between partners. I can relate to self-disclosure in relationships, especially after reading the article “Can We Talk? Researcher Talks about the Role of Communication in Happy Marriages”. The writer discusses the importance of reveal one’s thoughts and feelings to gain understanding and develop relationships among people.
I have been married for six years, and I have a healthy relationship with my husband. We ensure that we create time to address issues affecting our relationship. Human beings have different ...

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MEMO: SILENCE Page 1 of 3

Introduction: The article “Is Silence Killing Your Company?” has interesting information about creating healthy communications in a company. The purpose of this memo is to share and discuss the main points in the article because they are helpful to company management. Both of the articles referred to in this memo can be found in the Harvard Business Review which is a peer-reviewed journal.

Silence is Unhealthy: Unfortunately people that speak out are famous as being whistleblowers who lose their jobs. They may even become ostracized from their profession. Speaking out is not thought of ...

I agree that two possible reasons for failure of team collaborations is ego and introvert persons. These two affects the team’s communication which is very essential to have a successful team. With ego and introvert persons, the contributions they may give to the success of the project like their ideas may not be fully blown. They have a tendency that they may not voice out their ideas even if these are good because they may be afraid that other members will not like them.

Building Trust Among Virtual Teams

I agree that trust takes time to establish and reliability and consistency are two helpful characteristics ...

Introduction

The article written by Auberbach for the USA Today gives a comprehensive description of the situation of domestic violence and sexual assault in American Football particularly within the elite players (Auberbach, 2015). The current problem that this sport faces, which includes university teams as a brand, coaches, and players, is the growing stigma that football players are violent and tend to beat and sexually assault women. Due to several cases of star players that were found guilty of these charges, increased the bad press of this sport. Furthermore, coaches are facing a potential job loss, and universities are being ...

This is an article that talks about the six worst behaviors people can have that drive other people away from them. In this essay, I will discuss and then apply these toxic behaviors to my leadership skills and then brainstorm possible solutions for my problem areas so that I can create a more acceptable and enjoyable work experience as a leader.
Many of us can relate to behaving badly and causing destruction at one time or another during our lifetimes since humans are fallible and imperfect. However, it is of vital importance to be able to recognize and correct ...

Review on the article “Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime”

Full reference of the work:
Fondation Scelles Group. (2012). Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution and Organized Crime. Retrieved from http://www.fondationscelles.org/en/prostitution/prostitution-by-countryhttp://www.fondationscelles.org/pdf/rapport_mondial/sexual_exploitation_prostitution_Fondation_Scelles.pdf

The article of the Fondation Scelles Group (2012) is against prostitution, and considers prostituion as sexual exploitation in whichever cultural, economic or political contexts. The article gave overview of the prostitution globalization, commoditization and trivialization. Global prostitution is possible because it surpasses borders since human go from one country to another so as to perchance sex or practice prostitution. Some people leave their country with the hope of a better opportunity but were caught by traffickers who exploit them around the ...

Question one

Racism is an aspect that has become part and parcel of our daily lives today. People view the world regarding the aspect of race. Racism is what differentiates the people into categories: Black, white, Asian, and others. The way people view and take each other is what affects the various aspects of their daily lives, that is, the job place, kind of friends, schools to attend, as well as money people makes. All these aspects are affected by the one social construction that is the race.
The power of illusion documentary series shows how racism has gone a greater ...

MENTAL HEALTH

The article titled “It’s time to rethink our thinking about mental health problems” by Richard Lakeman presents critical view on contemporary treatment to mental health. New opportunities open for the people, by discovering different biogenetic inventions and technological upheaval, are undoubtedly great accomplishments. However, such issues are to be considered comprehensively, as their influence is not as clear and exclusively beneficial as it may seem at first glance.
Talking more specifically, author means that there develops a new, quite hazardous, if applied blindly, method of treating mental disorders – namely, by defining them as brain diseases. Actually, as R. ...

The following story is all about a certain drunk’s club, called A.A. The A.A club is a rehabilitation centre for the addicted drunkards and drug takers in the Kansas City. In this centre, there was a meeting held by groups of drunkards and smokers who wanted to quit the habit of drinking. Moreover, among the drunkards and the smokers, they also share their experiences of life how they became addicted to drinking and smoking habits and how they have tried to stop the habits, but all in vain.
The story starts by a scary cover page of a devil pouring a drink in ...

In his talk, Kevin Breel talks of depression, through sharing his own experience. Kevin points on how people live with depression all their lives without coming out, due to fear of stigmatization by the society. Kevin shears how depression almost saw him commit suicide. In his talk, he argues that he lives two different lives, one, which everybody sees, and the other, which only he knows about. Kevin asks people living with depression to come out and help shun the ignorance that surrounds depression.
One of the main points that are passed by both the text and Kevin ...

Russia has been quite active on the international front of late, particularly in the Syrian question where it has played an important role in holding back Western military intervention With President Vladimir Putin continually increasing his powers at home and going on a charm offensive in the West, the stature of Russia has grown immensely and is seen as a counter to NATO and the softer policies of the European Union.
In his 2012 speech Vladimir Putin is talking about the new Russia which must face up to its challenges in a global context. In fact from the very beginning of ...

Max Weber, Bureaucracy

Thesis: The main focus for Weber in this article was to convey concrete ideas about the office and the office management in all the jurisdictional areas. He has also enlightened the reader with the old and the modern ways of holding office and office duties. Weber lays stress on following rules and laws in the office. He also calls holding an office as an occupation towards which an employee shall be inclined to order to survive.
“ There is the principle of fixed and official jurisdictional areas, which are genrally ordered by rules, that is , by laws or administrative ...

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Why Don’t You Dance?

In the story, “Why Don’t You Dance,” the author illustrates the main character as a nameless man who is a sorrowful and a desperate man. He has lost his wife for some unknown reasons, and that has driven him to sell all the furniture. The action of moving his whole bedroom indicates us that he has strong ties to his past. He seems to try to release the agony for the loss of his wife and embark on a new life.
In order to overcome his sorrow, he shares his memory with a person. The couple who is interested in his yard ...

Article review:

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Persuading others is not an easy task. This is mainly because it mainly involves in making an individual agree with what one is telling them. A number of communication skills are important in ensuring that one can persuade others. For example, in their line of work sales people are tasked with the job of persuading people to buy their product. Thus, the sales people must employ certain skill sets that will allow them to convince others. The first is being confident. In order to be able to persuade people one needs to be confident. Confidence is synonymous ...

Technology is advancing at an alarming, almost exponential rate; as human progress increases, so does technology, and its effects on our society become somewhat more truncated. Vincent Mosco, in his article “When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story,” notes that human society has a tendency to repeat history when it comes to technological advances; with each new stop, we hail our latest invention to be the be-all end-all for communication technology, ignoring that we have done that many times before. According to Mosco, “there is indeed a remarkably willful, historical amnesia about technology, particularly when it turns to communication and ...

Article Reflection

Article Reflection
The article that will be reviewed is “Using Higher Order Questioning to Accelerate Students’ Growth in Reading”. The main thesis of the article is about how teachers today are changing their reading instructions among their students to reflect higher level talk, writing and questioning. Teachers are now realizing the value of encouraging students to engage in higher level talk in discussing reading materials in their classes. Teachers have observed that students are gaining reading achievements since their introduction of higher order questioning. As opposed to instructions based on lower level questions and teacher-directed method of teaching, ...

Background

A Literature Review is an important part of every paper. It is basically used to provide a brief but complete summary of the evidences or the related literatures that the researchers were able to dig out. Conducting a literature review enables the researchers as well as the readers to be assured that the paper they are reading is valid, reliable and does not contain any major type of error. This paper will focus on reviewing two journal articles that are both related to management and organizational change. The sources will be reviewed based on the strengths and weaknesses of the contents, ...