PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION WEEK 3

• Non-verbal communication

  • High-context - feelings and thoughts
  • Low-context - feelings and thoughts
  • Non-verbal communication - kinesics
  • Proxemics
  • Paralanguage
• Intercultural communication


  Attribution can lead to ethnocentric or stereotypical views
• Communication process

  Sharing meaning by transmitting messages
• Space influencer


  Refers to how something is said
• Cultural noise can impact communication
• Cultural sensitivity requires flexibility and understanding that some things are not explicitly expressed
• Communication Process

  Cultural communication is more complex than spoken or written message transmission
• Effective communication requires careful encoding, selective transmission, and feedback
• Thought pattern

  Logical progression of reasoning
• Cultural variables

  • Role perception
  • Language
  • Time perception (monochronic cultures, polychronic cultures)
  • Society values and norms
  • Interaction posture
  • Orientation to knowledge
• Orientation to knowledge

  Understanding that personal beliefs are valid
• Society values honor

  Interaction posture is influenced
• Conformity is achieved through the ability to respond and adapt in social or professional settings
• In what stage of the SQ3R Method do you process the headings and subheadings for building evaluation questions?
• If you are covering a wide area of text for reading while focusing on finding keywords rather than on comprehending word and sentence combinations, you are likely to be performing what speed-reading strategy?
• What do you call the learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory?
• It is explained as the manner of engaging oneself in what he reads by asking questions like, “what does the author mean?” or “what is the argument raised”?
• Which of the following should be considered when choosing a book author?
• Among the following note-taking strategies, which one can be considered as more suitable for logical writing?
• One’s main goal in reading a newspaper is to
• What is the aim of scanning?
• It is the ability to process text
• Annalise has no idea about the topic of the text that she is about to read. In this situation, what is the best thing that Annalise must do?
• What do you call the goal of reading where one tries to appreciate the material or when an individual wants to read for enjoyment?
• Critical thinking yields several strategies to use in academic writing. Which of the following strategies best describes critical thinking?
• Which of the following statements best explains the term “click before you think”?
• What do you call the marker that connects the text to the references?
• Which of the following is more reader-centric by nature?
• It is a way of linking concepts using images, lines, and links used.
• What are the majors of a text?
• In non-academic texts, authorship is not limited to credentials or writing ability
• Which of the following statements describes the reading and the understanding of denotative meaning?
• When evaluating arguments, readers make
• When trying to grasp the gist of a long classic novel, you are better off performing what speed-reading strategy?
• A student crying before a dramatic scene in a novel may have performed what comprehension strategy?
• What do you call a way of linking key concepts using images, lines, and links?
• Which best describes an author of academic texts?
• Which of the following has the longer range of validity (ex. not affected by the cruciality of time frame, no need to be revised or updated yet)?
• Which of the following best describes critical reading?
• It is the skeleton of the text pinpointing the main ideas of the text.