Interpersonal Communication

• Interpersonal communication

  • process of exchanging feelings, ideas, and information
  • message is communicated through words, voice, body language, etc.
• Dialogue

  -conversation between individuals

  -it can bring a story or character to life

  -use quotation marks

  • Outer-set off by quotation marks where a character talks to another character
  • Inner-monologue where the character is thinking, set off by quotation marks or italics
• Conversation

  -informal spoken interchange between or among people

  -follows rules of etiquette because it is a social interaction
• Interview

  -formal conversation

  -involves an interviewee and an interviewer

  -aims to secure understanding, to establish acceptance, and to motivate action
• Open ended questions

  -need more time and thought to answer
• Close ended questions

  -can be answers with yes or no