MLG 205
Week 4 (Sept. 17 and 19)
Agenda: Get ORGANIZED
● Use your planner to write down your study plans for this week
● September 24
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Note-taking Journal 2 due
Introduce new study/good student skill
APA Workshop: Reference Page
Culture and Communication
● September 26
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Portfolio Section 1 Due
APA Workshop: Summarizing and Plagiarism
Culture and Communication Cont’d
● Assignments
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September 26:
● Portfolio Section 1 Due
● Bring a Textbook to class
Good Student Skill
Wayzgoose Press. (2013). Fifty ways to be a better student: Tips for college and
university students. Smashwords.com.
● Last Week:
● Ask for help
● Did you try it? What happened?
● This Week:
● Know the Rules:
● Never Cheat on Tests or Quizzes (includes studying old tests or
giving your answers to others.)
● Be careful with second-hand materials: erase it or block the
answers out.
● Don’t Plagiarize
● Know the grading breakdown
● Know the work parameters (when is it okay to work with others?)
Note-taking Journal 2 Due
● What issues did you have?
● What are your goals to overcome these issues?
APA Workshop: Reference Page
● What is a reference page?
● Ask for help
● Did you try it? What happened?
● How do you write a reference?
● Get out your textbook
● Practice:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/
● How do you set up a reference page?
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Microsoft Word
1 inch margins (with 1/2in header/running head)
Times New Roman
12 point font
Center the title “References”
Alphabetical order by author’s last name
Hanging indent
Double space
● If you have yours with you, let’s peer edit.
Culture and Communication
Martin, J. N., & Nakayama, T. K. (2011). Experiencing intercultural
communication: An introduction (4th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
● Context and Power
● What is Context?
“the physical or social situation in which communication occurs”
(p. 51)
● “classroom, a bar, or a church” (p. 51).
● “physical characteristics…influence the communication” (p. 51)
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● How does Context influence communication?
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Social Context: Using adolescents in underwear ads
Political Context: Animal rights activist throw blood on people
who wear fur
● Historical Context: African Americans and Whites in the US vs.
Whites and Blacks in Europe (legacy of slavery influences
interaction)
Homework
● Assignments
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September 26
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Bring a Textbook to class
Portfolio Section 1 Due
Agenda: Get ORGANIZED
● September 26
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Portfolio Section 1 Due
APA Workshop: Summarizing and Plagiarism
Culture and Communication Cont’d
● Assignments
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September 26:
● Portfolio Section 1 Due
● Bring a Textbook to class
APA Workshop: In-text Citations
● Summarizing
● What is it?
● How do you do it?
● https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/
Overall, the first two quarters of 2008 have been
profitable to the company. Nineteen of twenty
departments report cutting costs at least twenty percent,
and sales from fifteen departments have risen five
percent, or about $5 million. Despite these positive
developments, most department heads believe that they
will not be able to maintain these levels for the remainder
of the year.
Summary: The company has driven profits from
January to June of 2008, but the rest of the year is
not expected to be as good.
● Original:
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APA Workshop: In-text Citations
● In-text Citations
● Use quotations, paraphrases, summaries in your
research
● Practice:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/
● Practice: Use your textbook; choose one paragraph
● Write one quotation
● Write a paraphrase of the quotation
● Write a summary of the paragraph
● Use in-text citatons
● How to do it Microsoft Word
● Plagiarism
Culture and Communication
Martin, J. N., & Nakayama, T. K. (2011). Experiencing intercultural
communication: An introduction (4th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
● What is “Power” in Communication?
“in every society, a social hierarchy exists that gives some
groups more power and privilege than others” (p. 52)
● Male vs. female / disabled vs. non-disabled / majority vs.
minority
● “Those in power, consciously or unconsciously, create
communication systems that reflect … their own ways of
thinking” (p. 52).
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● Group-related Power
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Involuntary groups: age, ethnicity, gender, physical ability, race
Voluntary groups: educational background, geographic location,
marital status, and socioeconomic status
Culture and Communication
Martin, J. N., & Nakayama, T. K. (2011). Experiencing intercultural
communication: An introduction (4th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
● Barriers to Intercultural Communication
Ethnocentrism: “the belief that one’s own cultural group (nationality)
is superior to all other cultural groups” (p. 54)
● “prevents people from even trying to see another’s point of view”
(p. 55)
● Stereotyping: Categorizing people
● “widely held beliefs about a groups of people”
● Can be positive:
● Attractive people are social
● Muslims are devoted
● Asians are smart
● Americans are free
● Can be negative:
● Muslims are sexist (ignore women) and violent
● Asians are poor
● Americans are rude
● Developed from our experiences and Media portrayal
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Culture and Communication
Martin, J. N., & Nakayama, T. K. (2011). Experiencing intercultural
communication: An introduction (4th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
● Prejudice
● “a negative attitude toward a cultural group based on little or no
experience” (p. 57)
● Should we be “color-blind”?
● It’s not possible. We do notice color.
● Discourages meaningful conversations about race relations
● Allows people to continue to ignore the problem
● Discrimination
● “behavior that results from stereotyping or prejudice—overt
actions to exclude, avoid, or distance oneself from other groups”
(p. 60)
● Can be subtle: lack of eye contact, excluding someone from a
conversation
● Can be obvious: verbal insults, exclusions from jobs or
economic opportunities, physical violence, systematic
elimination of the group, genocide.
Culture and Communication
Martin, J. N., & Nakayama, T. K. (2011). Experiencing intercultural
communication: An introduction (4th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
● Activity
● Identify the various cultural groups you belong to, both
voluntary and involuntary. Choose two of these groups, and
think about each group and your membership in that group.
● Try to describe how belonging to that group influences your
perceptions. For example, how is your worldview influenced
by belonging to your family? By being a female or male?
By being an international student?
● Describe how your communication with others is influenced
by your membership in these two groups.