COMM 445: Discussion Question Set 5 Good Will Hunting The Purpose of this Discussion Question set is to have you apply material regarding verbal immediacy behavior to a scene from Good Will Hunting. The scene on YouTube is titled, ‘The Best Part of My Day.’ Here are your guidelines: 1. Read the material on verbal immediacy. On pages 203-204, verbal immediacy includes the following behaviors: o Word choice (e.g., ‘this’ versus ‘that’) o Informal address (e.g., ‘Dan’ versus ‘Dr. Canary’) o Depth of disclosure (level of intimacy explored) o Verbal Person-centeredness (focus on other person’s perspective and articulating that awareness) o Relationship indicators (e.g., ‘best friend,’ ‘we are official’) o 2. Watch ‘The Best Part of My day.’ The YouTube url is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfipuaIA68&ebc=ANyPxKrpHX48M3M2IpM_PBySykWhD_bq4ZOdPLac__SP54zfFB0ySFvKllGqFoaGZ57bIoYE3pzwEidsxyl_lw KdZECFLdVOQ (Links to an external site.) You only need to offer one example for questions 3 and 4. That would mean a minimum of two examples per paper. 3. Watch the scene again, this time reporting examples of any of the five behaviors listed above. In your examples, be sure to include the actual words that Ben Affleck says to Matt Damon. (Note: Not all five verbal immediacy behaviors are necessarily represented in this scene.) 4. Watch the scene again, this time recording behaviors you think represent verbal immediacy but are not in the above list. Include any message examples that might appear negative but, in their context, actually function as positive verbal immediacy. As before, be sure to include the actual words that Ben Affleck says to Matt Damon. 5. Based on the steps above, draw a conclusion about verbal immediacy and develop that conclusion. For instance, you might conclude that verbal immediacy is reflected in other behaviors besides the five listed above, or that the construct of verbal immediacy should be more narrowly defined, or that one or two kinds of verbal immediacy is/are more prominent or impactful than the other kinds. In any case, offer your conclusion with a brief rationale. Purchase answer to see full attachment Tags: relationship indicators Ben Affleck Matt Damon Verbal Immediacy inclusive pronouns 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.