SCHOLARSHIP STUDY

• Formal Types of Communication Skills


  • Official communication
  • Verbal expressions that address a formal need
• Informal Communication


  • The (unofficial) grapevine
  • Word-of-mouth information
• Oral Communication


  • Face-to-face
  • Distance
• Face-to-face oral communication


  • What you express comes directly from what you speak
  • Can be formal or informal
• Distance (oral) communication


  • Tone of voice and pace of delivery take priority over other expressions
• Non-verbal Types of Communication


  • Physical postures and gestures
  • Tone and pace of voice
  • Attitude
• Written Communication


  • Depended on mailman, now takes over every aspect of our world
• Kinesics or kinesic communication


  Communication through body movements, such as gestures and facial expressions
• Proxemics


  The study of space and how we use it, and how it makes us feel more or less comfortable
• Haptic communication


  Communication and interaction via the sense of touch
• Paralanguage


  The vocalized but nonverbal parts of a message
• Vocalics


  The study of paralanguage, which includes the vocal qualities that go along with verbal messages
• Chronemics


  The study of the use of time in nonverbal communication
• Setting


  Where and when the story is set, including the physical location, time (past, present, future), and social/cultural conditions
• Social journalism


  A media model consisting of a hybrid of professional journalism, contributor and reader content
• Citizen journalism


  Public citizens playing an active role in collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information
• Yellow journalism


  Journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate, well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales
• Adversarial journalism


  A form of journalism that seeks to uncover wrongdoings of public officials
• Manipulatives Media


  Tools used to aid in hands-on learning, including physical objects or computer programs that learners can manipulate
• Interactive media


  Any computer-delivered electronic system that allows the user to control, combine, and manipulate different types of media
• Historical Ages


  • Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700's)
  • Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
  • Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)
  • Information Age (1900s-2000s)
• Character


  A person or animal or anything personified, including main and secondary characters
• Plot


  The events that happen in the story, including introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
• Conflict


  The challenge or problem around which the plot is based
• Theme


  The central idea, belief, moral, lesson or insight that the author is trying to convey
• Point-of-view


  The perspective from which the story is told, including first person, third person limited/multiple/omniscient, and second person
• Tone


  The overall emotional meaning of the story, conveyed through word choice, grammar, theme, imagery, and sound
• Style


  How things are said, including word choices, sentence structure, dialogue, figurative language, and sound devices
• Confucianism


  An ancient Chinese belief system focusing on personal ethics and morality
• Mencius


  The best-known Confucian philosopher after Confucius himself
• Buddhism


  A faith founded by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) more than 2,500 years ago in India
• Indios


  The native indigenous peoples in Spanish America and Asia possessions, ranked lowest in the Spanish racial hierarchy
• Processes of Evolution


  • Mutation
  • Genetic Recombination
  • Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Reproductive isolation
  • Natural Selection
• Dryopithecus


  Ancestors of both man and apes, lived in tropical lowlands and were likely herbivores
• Ramapithecus


  Hominid ancestors who lived in open grasslands, with evidence of thickened tooth enamel, robust jaws, shorter canines, and upright posture
• Australopithecus


  Genus first discovered in South Africa, walked erect and used stones as weapons
• Homo Erectus


  Considered the missing link between man and apes, used tools, controlled fire, and lived in communities
• Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis


  Evolved from Homo Erectus, had larger cranial capacity and could hunt large animals
• Homo Sapiens


  Remains first discovered in Europe, had reduced jaws, rounded skulls, and cranial capacity around 1350 cc, gathered food through hunting and developed art
• Media literacy


  The ability to identify different types of media and the messages they are sending