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The Elephant and Rider: Reflections on Impassivity in Professional Communication
Get PDFCan self-identifying impassive writers succeed in professional communication? This short metacognitive reflection establishes the salience of emotional consideration in persuasion. From this, it provides techniques for so-called "deadpans" to employ effective pathos in business settings, leadership, and media. Leveraging key themes learned throughout WRS 210, such as Underwood\u27s communication model, the article analyzes successes and failures in the context of a community-service learning (CSL) project. Doing so reveals that emotional consideration is foundational to successful leadership. Moreover, emotional ambiguity in-part defines professional communication as a discipline. To conceptualize this relationship, Haidt\u27s Elephant-Rider model is applied, which reconciles pathos and logos in a way that is consistent with the goal of professional communication. The article concludes that understanding and utilizing the Elephant-Rider model bolsters effective pathos -- a necessary component of successful professional leadership and persuasion.
“nikosis, kiwanêyihtamin? tânita ohci kiya?” (My boy, are you lost? Do you forget where you come from?)
Get PDFThis text is a literacy narrative, which gives the reader a sense of who I am and where I come from. It introduces you to my grandmother and uses the Cree language to give her a voice. She is the person behind who I have become. Cree plays an important role in the delivery of the message, and the translation is found within the text.
I, a Girl who is New to the World of English Academic Writing
Get PDFWriting narrative on learning academic writing in Englis
The Value of Citations in Academic Disciplines
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The following reflective essay focuses on the use of citations within academic disciplines. It focuses on my experiences and how these experiences relate to published literature. Moreover, as an individual in the discipline of neuroscience, this essay will focus largely on how citations apply to the discipline of neuroscience. Specifically, how the act of citing develops an individual’s rhetorical appeal and connectivity to the individual’s discipline
Writing Processes
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The Effects of Positive Affirmation and Constructive Criticism on Student Writing and Success
No full textIs it more helpful for an individual such as a teacher to provide a student with constructive criticism or positive affirmations in relation to their writing work? Which method is helpful in pushing the student to prosper and which can be detrimental when utilized inappropriately and ineffectively? Do positive affirmations provide students with a false sense of confidence with little knowledge of what they can improve upon or does constructive criticism dismantle the faith an individual has in their writing capabilities causing them to produce work that is not of their best quality? This paper explores both forms of feedback often employed by educators through the utilization of various research papers and sources to determine which method of response or assessment is most useful in order for a student to reach their full writing potential
The Importance of Scaffolding
No full textFor this assignment, students were asked to reflect on their experiences as a student in WRS 101 by exploring a writing topic that shines a light on those events. This was a critical analysis of the students\u27 experience through an argumentative essay. In this case, the importance of scaffolding was explored to see how different aspects of the class such as the professor, resources and peer contributed to interdependent learning. Ultimately, the impact of scaffolding an assignment or ideas was analyzed to see how it impacted a student\u27s learning as the scaffolds were gradually withdrawn. This paper reveals the importance of scaffolding throughout a student\u27s academic experience