Types of Communication; The Group Informational Speech

Please turn in your homework (10 Review ?'s for chapter 2: The Communication Process). If you haven't completed your baseline short story fiction based on our interview project/notes, you are falling behind. Please catch up!

Today in class: In your journal/notebook, please read and take notes on the following information about communication for the next 10 minutes. When time is called, if you have not yet completed these notes, please complete them in your own time, perhaps for homework:

There are two types of basic communication that we, as humans, engage in. They are:

1. Interpersonal communication: communication between two or more people, usually through words, symbols, gestures, or expressions.

and

2. Intrapersonal communication: communication with the self. Thoughts, feelings, and prayers are often different types of intrapersonal communication.

We are going to focus on interpersonal communication in this class. There are several general types of interpersonal communication:

• 1. One-to-one communication: talking with one other person. Conversation is the most basic form of this, either face-to-face, or in an interview, or on the telephone, but it can also be writing (the author communicating with a reader, for example) or texting or typing an email.

• 2. Group discussion: talking with more than one other person (usually 2 or more) with a common purpose in mind. Often this common purpose is to solve a common problem, to share an idea or information, to make a decision about something, or to answer a question.

• 3. Public communication: a form of interpersonal communication in which one or more people communicate with an audience. A typical example might include the communication that happens between a performer and an audience in a theatrical production, for example, or public speaking. Public communication also includes oral interpretation, reader's theater, improv, all sorts of performances or even film.

• 4. Mass communication: one person (or several people) communicate with a very large group of listeners or an audience. Usually the listeners/audience are not physically present when the person sends his/her message. Delivery of the sender's message is usually through technology, like television, the computer, or through film or radio.

The Informational Speech Group Project

For our next project we are going to deliver a short informational group speech to the class. Please follow each of the following steps CAREFULLY. READ this post first, before asking me about what we're doing:

1.Take no more than 2 minutes to brainstorm in your journal a list of topics that you'd like to learn more about or topics that interest you. 

2. After brainstorming you will be given a few minutes to stand and move about the room. Please do not stay seated! Find another person in the room who has at least ONE of the same topics written in their journal as you did. Once you find this person, stick with them and sit down. 

3. After every student has found a match, please sit. 

4. From the lists you generated, choose one subject with your partner. This will be your speech topic. 

5. Once you have decided on a speech topic with your partner, spend some time today finding out the following:

• A. what is it? 

• B. where does it come from or what is its history/culture? 

• C. why is it important?

• D. How does it affect us or how is this topic relevant to our lives?

When you find your answers, make sure you cite the website, author, speaker, or writer of your source. This is called gathering sources. You will need at least 3 sources that you write up on a works cited page to turn in when you deliver your speech.

You should work with your partner and divide tasks. Try breaking down a topic into parts that make up the whole. Or give each member of the group a question to answer (what is it, for example? or why is it important?) Before the end of class come back together with your partnership and discuss further action that must be taken.

By the end of THIS class, you should have completed the following:

1. Chosen a partner2. Chosen a topic3. Researched a topic (gathered at least 3 sources)

With time remaining in class, you may also:

A. Begin writing your speech together with your partner.B. Use the research and sources in your speech.C. Create an MLA works cited page for your speech. Look here for MLA works cited format.

HOMEWORK: None. Unless you are behind either in homework, or in the fiction baseline draft.