This discussion topic is designed to help you consider a problem in your workplace or community and to design strategies in communicating about it. This discussion topic might help you approach your final research-based report in WRTG 394.First, please access and read through the following articles about communication inhibitors.Dr. K. Usha Rani, "Communication Barriers"Lumen Learning, "Communication Barriers"These items are available as eReserves in our class in LEO. You can access the articles by taking the following steps: click Content• select Class Resources• select eReserves• select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.• in the list of items that appears, locate the articles and download themThen, respond to this discussion topic by completing the following tasks:Please think of an example of a problem with communication in your workplace or your community. Then answer the following five questions with regard to that problem. Post your answers to this discussion topic. What is the specific problem with communication?Does the problem represent an example of one of the barriers that the articles that Dr. Rani and Lumen Learning identify? If so, which one(s)?What are some possible communication strategies in notifying someone about the problem?What is the best course of action for you to take in solving the problem?What is the best way for you to communicate this problem to the relevant individuals?__________________________An example of how to respond to this discussion topic is the following:1. What is the specific problem with communication?I am on a committee at work. There are five members of the committee. However, three of the members telework two days a week, and, as a result, we can never meet face-to-face. Our meetings are not very productive because some of us are in the room during the meeting while some of us are on the phone during the meeting. 2. Does the problem represent an example of one of the barriers that the articles by Dr. Rani and Lumen Learning identify? If so, which one(s)?Yes. This is an example of a channel barrier. The medium chosen for our type of communication -- online meeting software -- is not suitable or appropriate for our context.3. What are some possible communication strategies in notifying someone about the problem?I could email my supervisor, who formed the committee.4. What is the best course of action for you to take in solving the problem?Our committee was formed for a specific duration of time. We have two months remaining for our committee. I think we should arrange for everyone to be in the office on the same day each week for this two months. We could hold our committee meetings on that day of the week. This arrangement would solve the problem in that we would all be physically in the room for the meeting.5. What is the best way for you to communicate this problem to the relevant individuals?A series of messages would be preferred in this case. They would be the following:I could send an email message to my supervisor. In that email message, I would note the following:how many times we have metwhat types of communication problems have occurred during our meetings that have caused the meetings to be less than productiveI could then outline a plan for having everyone in the office one day during the week so that we could hold our meetings on that day.

300-400 wordsSearch through common media sources looking for examples of fallacies. Some common places to find fallacies include advertisements, opinion pieces in news media, and arguments about politics, religion, and other controversial issues. You may also notice fallacies in your daily life.Present three distinct informal logical fallacies you have discovered in these types of sources or in your life. Make sure to identify the specific fallacy committed by each example. Explain how the fallacies were used and the context in which they occurred. Then, explain how the person should have presented the argument to have avoided committing this logical error.

One of the areas of intense study by historians has been the relationship between those who came to the New World and those who inhabited it. In his famous work A People's History of the United States historian Howard Zinn discusses the nature of some these early encounters on Hispaniola. In your textbook, The American Promise, there is a little reading on this topic on pages 34 - 36 . Read these over first. In the Objective A Canvas module read Readings in American History #3 - Zinn's essay entitled "Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress". Compare the two accounts. What do you think of Zinn's sources(Columbus' own journal / diary entries, the historian Samuel Morison and his reflections, and the writings of the first hand observations Bartolome de las Casas)? Are any of them reliable? Discuss each one and weigh the pros and cons of each. Do you agree or disagree with Zinn's points? Do you think HE is a "good" historian? What do you think was the true nature of these early encounters? What should we teach in our history classes? At what grade level? Be sure to answer ALL of these questions within your paper !!Remember, the purpose of the paper is to compare material in a thoughtful and analytical manner and to offer your own interpretation in a cogent, insightful, academic and collegiate way.FormatYou'll see these same requirements under the drop box, but here they are: Papers should be 2-3 typed pages, double-spaced, with 1" margins and in 12' font. Those submitted in WORD are readable, other formats MAY NOT BE. Your name should be on them, with the submission date. You may add an additional "creative" title if you wish to. Should you choose to quote or use ideas from a source other than yourself be sure to mention the source and page that you took it from. Use the parenthetical system for this, i.e. [Zinn, p. 42]. NO outside sources are to be used, and any sort of plagiarism will result in automatic failure for the course.I am not looking for the perfect two page paper just something to get me by.