Reaction Paper #1 50 Points 2 pages This week’s topic involves Interpersonal Negotiations. Here are 3 abstracts on topics in Interpersonal Negotiations that I hope you find compelling. (You don’t have to track down the articles…just read the abstracts that I have provided.) After considering each of the topic areas, please select the one that you find most interesting and create a 2 page reaction paper that addresses the following: How is this topic a negotiation? What do you think the study found? Use examples from your real life/pop culture to expand and show that you fully understand this interpersonal negotiation topic. __________________________________________________________________ Abstracts Sex In Marriage The Performance of Desire: Gender and Sexual Negotiation in Long-Term Marriages Journal of Marriage and Family We integrate theoretical traditions on the social construction of gender, heterosexuality, and marriage with research and theory on emotion work to guide a qualitative investigation of how married people understand and experience sex in marriage. Results, based on 62 in-depth interviews, indicate that married men and women tend to believe that sex is integral to a good marriage and that men are more sexual than women. Moreover, husbands and wives commonly experience conflict around sex and undertake emotion work to manage their own and their spouse’s feelings about sex. We refer to this emotion work as “performing desire” and show how it is linked to gendered experiences in marriage and to competing cultural discourses around gender, heterosexuality, and marriage. Long Distance Relationships Relating at a distance: Negotiating being together and being apart in long-distance relationships Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Partners in various relationships transition between being together and apart, but these transitions are far from seamless in long-distance relationships. In this study, a relational dialectics framework was used to examine long-distance romantic relationships and explore the contradiction(s) experienced by those involved as they negotiate between togetherness and separation. Twenty heterosexual couples participated in audio-taped interviews in which they answered a series of questions relating to togetherness and separation. Results showed that across all 20 couples, the interaction states of being together and being apart mutually enable and constrain on e another in many ways. Those Damn Kids Negotiate better relationships with you children. Negotiation The article discusses the negotiation techniques suggested by Scott Brown, a founding member of the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School and father of four young children, in creating better relationships with children. He outlines a framework that is based on the same mutual gains negotiation techniques and is tailored to kids aged two to 12, although the principles extend to teenagers and adult children as well. The framework is composed of six categories which include; parents should deal with their emotions first, they should help their children cope with their emotions, they should learn to listen and talk to their children, parents should learn to use persuasion instead of coercion, and they should also discipline their children wisely. INSET: “Negotiate with my kids? Are you nuts?” Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 2 pages Tags: communications personal relationships interpersonal interactions sex in marriage Interpersonal Negotiations 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.