PURC FINALS

• verbal (sounds, language, and tone of voice)
• aural (listening and hearing)
• non-verbal (facial expressions, body language, and posture)
• written (journals, emails, blogs, and text messages)
• visual (signs, symbols, and pictures)
• KISS - keep it short and simple
• Agenda is a list of topics that are planned to be discussed at a meeting.
• Memorandum is a workplace document that sends information to people in your organization about a work related topic.
• workplace document is any document that provides steps or gives instructions to carry out tasks that contains technical details
• WRITING PROPOSALS - a well-defined problems.
• Key messages Consider these:

  • Essential ideas
  • The Message
  • Specific needs are understood and acted upon
• Communication Strategies Consider these:

  • Resources
  • Effective communication
  • Outcomes delivery
• Electronic mail - is appropriate for short, rapid communications.
• Electronic mail - It is not effective for conveying large amounts of information or complex information.
• MEMORANDA - used to communicate specific information, usually within a department, or organization.
• Letters - the means of formal, professional communication with others outside an organization.
• Letters - used within an organization to formally present a secondary document, such as a committee report.
• Use one inch margins, 12 point font, double-line spacing, and page numbers
• Oral communications include simple telephone calls, interviews for class projects or research studies, and informal and formal presentations
• table is a convenient way to present data
• graph is simply a device to present data.
• Graphical excellence is nearly always multivariate.
• Map is a spatial method of communicating information about a project, process, travel route or idea
• research paper - primarily characterized by its use of data gathered from a wide range of sources to clarify, analyze, expound on, discover, discuss, and debate an idea.
• analytical research paper - one that uses evidence to study the facets involved in an issue or topic.
• In analytical, you are not making judgments on the topic, but that you are going to explore a topic
• Argumentative papers require you to take a stand on an issue and defend it
• Research is systematic
• abstract is the little bit of everything
• abstract - It has concise statements ttat contains the summary of the contents of the paper.
• abstract should not excess 250 words
• LITERATURE REVIEW -how and why researchers come up with the topic objectives.
• RESULTS - This presents findings which are clearly and simply stated
• DISCUSSION -This is where results should be communicated
• CONCLUSION -This section enumerates the principal findings of the research