Yenthy Nguyen

6A Professional Communications

10/11/13

“WHEN WILL MY REFLECTION SHOW?”

-MULAN

What did I learn?

I learned about…• Advertisements

• Billboard designs

• Communication Styles

Advertisements

Who uses it?People use it when people want to persuade someone to buy a “special” type of good.

What is it?It is a paid announcement to promote goods.

Why do we have it?It’s supposed to promote goods for the companies to help give them profit from the goods.

Billboard Designs

What is it?It’s a type of advertisement. The other type is Glittering Generalities and Model Communications.

What’s so special about it?

It’s uses a technique called bandwagon. Bandwagon means that if

someone is doing something then they should too. eg. If Sasha has silly bands, then I should too.

How is it presented?

It’s not a video like Glittering Generalities or a model like Model

Communication. It’s a one-page advertisement.

Communication StylesWhat is it?

Exchanging thoughts and opinions by speaking, writing, or signs.

What types of styles are there?There is assertive (reaching a mutual agreement), aggressive (manipulation for a goal), passive (avoiding confrontation), and passive-aggressive (avoids conflict but manipulates).

What is special about each one?• Assertive - gives you the healthiest way of communicating

• Aggressive – uses guilt

• Passive – does not react or stand up to the confrontation

• Passive-Aggressive – most commonly seen style

Why did I learn?

I learned…•because of success

• to gain more knowledge

• to have a better understanding of the world

To gain SuccessWhen?• In college

• In high school

• In fundraisers

• In our jobs

Why?We use what we learn to do better in life, to make a living, to earn money to feed for ourselves because we can not rely on our parents or friends forever. Having better communication will make us seem more educated and people would accept us more.

To gain more knowledge

What?You gain more knowledge everyday. You learn in in school, at home and at work. What I learned gave me more knowledge.

How?A teacher can tell you, you can read, take notes, and pay attention in class to gain more knowledge.

Why?We try to gain more knowledge because at some point in life we are going to use the knowledge to benefit us.

To have a better understanding of the world

How?By communicating we are exploring and learning something new. When you speak to a foreigner you can learn about them by their accents.

Why? If you have a job that works internationally you would want to communicate with them well so that you gain their liking and trust to work with you. They also become your ally.

What can I do with what I learned?

I can apply it…• To myself• To the society• To class

Applying it for Myself

When?I can use what I learned when I have a job or when I am presenting a project.

Why?

I can use it when I am trying to persuade someone to buy goods

and use my communication to do that.

How?Everyone uses communication in some form. It’s impossible to not communicate. Even if you sit and do nothing, you still communicate with your body language and eyes.

Applying it for SocietyWhere?

We can you what we learned at home, with friends, at work, and at school.

Why?We apply it to the society because we want to connect to the listener so that they can have interest in what we are saying.

How?Using communication skills and persuasion the audience will listen to us.

When?You use it when you are doing an interview for a job. You want to persuade the person that you can and will do a suitable job and to so that you use communication skills.

Applying it for ClassWhen?

We apply it in class every day.

Why?

We always apply what we learned in class in some way. We apply in

class to make sure we understand what we have learned.

How?

We apply it in class by doing work and using what we learned. We

have homework based on what we learned and we have tests on what we learned.