A Qualitative Analysis of a Document: A View of a Credit Card
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This 12 page paper provides an overview of the basic assessment of a credit card as a document. This paper employs standard theoretical elements that relate to the assessment of a document, including the concepts of time, context, and themes, all of which define the document and shape the application of the information presented. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MHcredca.wps

Actively Developing Listening Skills
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A 6 page paper reviewing active listening skills and then putting them into practice. The skills discussed in this paper include maintaining eye contact with the speaker; avoiding distractions; treating listening as a challenging mental task; formulating mental questions; and using "the gap between the rate of speech and your rate of thought." The list of skills were put into practice after completing an online self-evaluation, to reveal to the listener that she had not been a good listener at all in the past. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KScommListen2.rtf

Advantages of Effective Oral Communication Skills in Business
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A 5 page paper discussing why organizations need effective oral communications more than ever before. It is no longer sufficient for managers to dictate, now they must lead. True leadership requires that the leader gain the dedication of the ranks, and that can be accomplished only through effective oral communication. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSbusCommAdv.rtf

Advertising and Gender Roles
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5 pages in length. It is nearly impossible to escape gender stereotypes, for they exist all throughout society. Advertisers especially seem to draw upon assumptions about male and female roles. Such intolerance has even been experienced from one's own significant other. From where do such harmful and often distorted images originate, and why have they not decreased over the past several decades? If one considers the fact that each person is a product of his own environment, it is easy to see that the influence of his surroundings is critical to forming his gender image. Attitudes are spread from generation to generation, community to community and person to person; there is virtually no way to avoid becoming tainted in a society that harbors negative or pre-formed stereotypes. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: JGAadsex.wps

Advertising and Public Relations -- Codependent Media Landscapes
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This 7 page report discusses the media landscapes of public relations and advertising and the ways in which they interact in the larger processes of public communication. The relationship between the two demonstrates how the line between where the media landscape of one reality and the next blur. The report also briefly discusses how the radical transformation of the business environment in recent years has been reshaping business communication. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWmedlnd.wps

Advertising and the Negative Affects on Young Women
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A 5 page literature review of three articles which discuss the negative affects of advertising on young women. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAgrlad.rtf

An Analysis of an Interview
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This 6 page paper provides an analysis of an interview submitted by a student. It concerns a telephone interview situation where a professional converses with a client. Several factors inclusive of preparedness and technique are discussed. No bibliography.
Filename: SA219int.rtf

An Analysis of Communication
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This 5 page paper takes two hypothetical situations and analyzes the communication that had taken place. Communication theory is used. Nonverbal communication is touched on. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA 108Com.wps