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Final Exam Study Sheet
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Communication
Undergraduate 3
04/24/2013

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Internal Documents
Definition
documents that go to people inside the organization.
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External Documents
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Documents that go to outside audience: clients, customers, suppliers, stockholders, government, media and general public.
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Conventions
Definition
Widely accepted practices you routinely encounter.
In business thise conventions help people recognize, produce and interpret different kinds of communication.
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You Attitude
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Writing that keeps reader in mind. Good writing is both friendly and businesslike.
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You-Attitude
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Style of communication that looks at things from the audiences point of view, emphasizing what the audience wants to know, respecting the audiences intelligence and protecting th audiences ego.
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Positive Emphasis
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Focusing on positive rather than negative.
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Bias-free language
Definition
language that does not discriminate.
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Tone
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Implied attitude of the communicator toward the audience.
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Empathy
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Ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes.
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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This instrment uses four pairs of dichotomies to identify ways that people differ.
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Extroverted
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People energized by interacting with other people.
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Introverted
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Energized from within.
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Extroversion-Introversion
Definition
How individuals prefer to focus their attention and energy.
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Sensing-Intuition
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Measures the way an individual prefers to take in information
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Sensing
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Gather information through their senses prefering what is real.
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Intuitive
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Prefer to gather information by looking at the big picture, focusing on te relationships and connections between facts.
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Thinking-Feeling
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Measures the way an indiviudal makes decisions.
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Thinking
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prefer to use thinking in decision making to consider logical consequences of a choice or action.
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Feeling
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Make decisions based on the impact to people, considering what is important to them and others involved.
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Judging-Perceiving
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Measures how an individual orient themselves to the external world.
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Judging
Definition
Like to live in a planned, orderly way, seeking closure.
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Perceiving
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Prefer to live in a flexible, sponatneous way, enjoying possibilities.
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Organizational Culture
Definition
Set of values, attitudes and philosophies.
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Audience Benefits
Definition
Advantages that the audience gets by using your services, buying your product, following your policies or adopting yor ideas.
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Intrinsic Motivators
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Come automatically from using a product or doing something.
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Extrinsic Motivators
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Added on. Someone in power decides to give them.
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Interpersonal Communication
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Includes such areas as listening, conversational style, body language, and networking.
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Active Listening
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Receivers actively demonstrate that they've understood a speaker by feeding back the literal meaning, the emotional content, or both.
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Networking
Definition
The ability to connect with many different types of people. It is creating connections with still more people.
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Data Security
Definition
Organizations take steps to protect their data.
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Phishing Messages
Definition
Emails that try to lre receivers to send sensitive information.
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Electronic Privacy
Definition
Organizations are monitoring many different kinds of electronic interactions.
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Subject line
Definition
Title of the document. Tells the reader why they need to read the document.
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Goodwill ending
Definition
Focus on the business relationship you share with the reader rather than on the readers hobbies, family or personal life. Paragraph that shows you see the reader as an individual.
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Humor
Definition
Some use this to ensure readers read their message. Can be extremely risky.
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Buffer
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This is a neutral or positive statement that allows you to delay the negative.
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Ethos
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Credibility
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Pathos
Definition
Emotional appeal
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Logos
Definition
Logical appeals
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