ASSIGNMENT FOR MODULE 7 Emotions are something huh? Let us see how you deal with them for your assignment shall we? Pick only one option to do. Either option or two. Read the instructions for the option you choose and please complete. As usual, send it to me at [email protected] no later than Sunday Thanks. Option 1. Communicating Your Emotions Communicating emotions is one of the most difficult of all communication tasks. Here are some situations to practice on. Visualize yourself in each of the following situations and respond as you think an effective communicator would respond. Just choose three to do, not all five. 1. A colleague at work has revealed some of the things you did while you were in college—many of which you would rather not have others on the job know about. You told your colleague these things in confidence and now just about everyone on the job knows. You’re angry and decide to confront your colleague. 2. A close friend comes to your apartment in deep depression, and tells you that her or his spouse of 22 years has fallen in love with another person and wants a divorce. Your friend is at a total loss as to what to do and comes to you for comfort and guidance. 3. A neighbor who has lived next door to you for the last ten years and who has had many difficult financial times has just won the lottery worth several million dollars. You meet in the hallway of your apartment house. 4. Your grandmother is dying and calls you to spend some time with her. She says she knows she is dying and wants you to know how much she has always loved you and that her only regret in dying is not being able to see you anymore. 5. Your friend posts on Facebook about the loss of her or his job due to downsizing. You know your friend really needs the money and must be feeling devastated, and you would like to offer emotional support. Option 2. Expressing Negative Feelings Here are three situations that would normally engender negative feelings. For each, indicate how you would express your negative feelings and also preserve and even improve the relationship you have with this other person. Just choose two do, not all three. 1. You have called your friend, Jane, the last four times but she never seems to call you. You feel hurt and annoyed that Jane doesn’t take the initiative to call you. You decide you have to tell her how you feel. 2. You and Viktor have made an appointment to go to breakfast at 9 o’clock, but Viktor shows up at 10:30 with only a general and seemingly flimsy excuse. You have been waiting since 9:00 and are angry that he doesn’t seem to care about the time you wasted. Since you don’t want this to happen again, you decide to tell him how you feel. 3. You’ve been dating Chris for about six weeks. Everything seemed to be going fine until your birthday when Chris simply posted on your Facebook wall. You expected something more. After all, you have been dating each other exclusively for six weeks. You feel that this shows that Chris does not really place much importance on the relationship and you want to get this feeling out into the open. ASSIGNMENT FOR MODULE 8 CONVERSATIONAL MESSAGES Alright. In regards to the Principle of Process, you have learned five steps of the process. One of those steps was feedforward. For the following comments made in the business step of the process, please write a one or two sentence of feedforward that would make an effective set up. Here are two examples: Feedforward: ‘We need to talk about our relationship.’ Business: ‘I think we should start seeing other people.’ Feedforward: ‘I would like to talk to you about your future with this company.’ Business: ‘Your fired’ Now you give it a try and send it back to me by the end of the week. Thanks. Feedforward: Business: ‘I would like you to invest in my startup company.’ Feedforward: Business: ‘Can I borrow 100 dollars from you?’ Feedforward: Business: ‘I think the grade you gave me was unfair.’ Feedforward: Business: ‘I saw your partner kissing another person on Chambers Street.’ Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: EMOTIONS effective communicator User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.