Artifact assignment about interpersonal communication

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paper work that require to apply knowledge from Books. Specific instruction and example are in PDF.( related your work with book chapter 9-14)

BOOK: Solomon,

D. H., & Theiss, J. (2013).

Interpersonal communication: Putting theory into practice

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1 Interpersonal Communication Artifact Assignment Description: The purpose of the artifact assignment is to apply concepts from the text and class discussions to your daily life. More specifically, the concepts can be applied to conversations between you and a relational partner (e.g., parent, romantic partner, friend, sibling, etc.), television shows, magazine ads, films, songs, or anything else that may come to mind. Due Date: 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 17th in ICON. Format: Your paper should address the following items and should be written in full sentences and paragraphs (i.e., do not simply provide a list of answers to the items below). However, to make sure you include all parts of the assignment, you may want to use subheadings to structure your content. • Introduction: An introduction using standard introduction devices. • Define: Explain the theory(ies) and/or concept(s) you are going to use in your paper, complete with definition, elaboration of the key terms, and consequences the theory/construct is associated with (e.g., decreased satisfaction, increased topic avoidance, etc) without discussing the event/ad/etc. You can only discuss concepts we have discussed. You cannot write a paper on a concept we have yet to cover in class. • Describe: Discuss the event/television show/etc in specific detail so that I can be fully aware of the situation at hand without discussing the concept. • Apply: Apply the concept to the event/ad/etc to show connections between the text and your daily life. • Conclusion: A conclusion using usual conclusive devices. Format Guidelines • Double-spaced, numbered pages; 1-inch margins on all four sides • 12-point Times New Roman font • 3 pages in length • APA 6th edition format In addition, your paper should be well-written. Use appropriate introductions, conclusions, and transitions. Use proper grammar and punctuation. Proofread for typos and other errors. Artifacts should be free of grammatical and spelling error. 2 EXAMPLE ARTIFACT ASSIGNMENT A New Family Unit: Stepfamily Issues in the show Parenthood The television show Parenthood follows the lives of the Braverman family, a family that deals with the various obstacles and joys that life has to offer. During the current season, one of the characters, Sarah, moves in with her fiancée, Mark. However, it is not just herself that she makes this decision for, she also makes her high school son to move in, forcing the three to become something of a family unit. The three face several issues that are similar to the issues a stepfamily faces when they are newly formed. Stepfamily Challenges The development of a stepfamily is a delicate process (Afifi & Schrodt, 2003). In lecture, Mikucki-Enyart (2012) outlined four challenges that stepfamilies often encounter: uncertainty, boundaries, fostering a sense of family, and feeling caught. This paper will focus on in-depth on two of these issues—uncertainty and boundaries. Uncertainty refers to the concept that it is difficult for stepfamilies to define this new family form (Afifi & Schrodt, 2003). This includes things such as what individuals will call each other, who has authority and how much, and where to live (Braithwaite & Baxter, 2006). Uncertainty also refers to the ambiguous loss children feel (Boss, 2002). This loss can be physical and/or emotional; the child may feel a loss of family identity, of the non-residential parent, or even the bond of having a single parent (Boss, 2002). The second issue concerning stepfamilies is defining boundaries. They must renegotiate these with the addition of new roles in the family. A key part of boundaries is understanding who has the right to private information (Petronio, 2002). A child may share a piece of information with either the parent or step-parent with the understanding they are not to tell their spouse, but 3 the parent my feel they now have ownership of the information to share with their spouse. This makes it hard for the child or parent/step-parent to trust one another (Baxter, Braithwaite, Bryant, & Wagner, 2004). The inability to manage these issues leads to anxiety, depression, and reduced relationship satisfaction (Afifi & Schrodt, 2003; Amato & Afifi, 2006), something that is evident in an episode of the television show Parenthood. Episode Recap In the television show Parenthood, Sarah Braverman is a divorced mother of two. In season four of the show she becomes engaged to Mark Cyr and makes the decision to move in with him. However, she is not just making the decision for herself she also makes the decision for her son Drew. Drew is greatly opposed to this idea, he does not want to move into Mark’s apartment and out of the comfortable life he has living at his grandparents. Another element to this situation is that Mark is a teacher at the high school Drew attends, making Drew view him more as a teacher his mother is dating. During the episode entitled “One more weekend with you,” Mark walks in on Drew having sexually relations with his girlfriend in the apartment. Both Mark and Drew feel awkward about this situation and don’t really know how to handle it. Drew asks Mark not to tell his mom, which Mark says he won’t. However, he is unable to keep this information a secret from his fiancée and ends up telling Sarah. Drew feels betrayed by Mark and is not enjoying the current living situation. The Challenges the Braverman’s Faced Although Sarah and Mark are not married yet making them an “official” stepfamily, Sarah’s choice to move herself and her son into a home with Mark has forced them to become something of a family unit. Becoming a new family leaves them susceptible to the issues stepfamilies face. One of the big issues these three face is uncertainty, especially for Drew and 4 Mark. Drew is having a hard time understanding the role Mark plays in his life and what to call him (Mikucki-Enyart, 2012). He first knew Mark as a teacher from school, then he became his mom’s boyfriend and eventual fiancée, and now the hardest part is to figure out what role Mark plays when Drew is living under his roof. This uncertainty between these three individuals makes it difficult to identify roles (Braithwaite, Olson, Golish, Soukup, & Turman, 2001). Another issue that affects the fictional stepfamily is boundary management (Petronio, 2002). Up until this point Drew, though he doesn’t share much, was able to tell his mom personal information and know it would stay between them. But now, there is a third person in the picture. On the flip side, Drew and Mark need to figure out what boundaries are in place between them. When Mark walks in on Drew and his girlfriend in “One more weekend with you,” Drew asks Mark to keep it a secret between the two of them. Mark makes the judgment call to take ownership of this information and shares it with Sarah. The dialogue between the three illustrate these stepfamily issues very well: Mark: I told your mom Drew: You promised you weren’t going to tell her. Sarah: I’m sorry we can’t have secrets like that in this house, I’m your mom and… Drew: He’s not my parent, like it’s different Sarah: I know, but I am your parent. We’re figuring this out together. (Parenthood) This dialogue shows that Drew and Mark had different understandings of their boundaries (Petronio, 2002). And Sarah points out a valuable aspect of their relationships, that it takes time to develop a new family and they have to work at it together (Braithwaite et al., 2001). If the family can tackle these issues effectively, they may be able to avoid the common, negative consequences that many stepfamilies endure. 5 According to Mikucki-Enyart (2012), there are several issues that a stepfamily must work through in order to develop a sense of family. This process is very delicate since there are several individuals impacted by this change who all have different ideas of what the normal should be. Much like the relationships between Mark, Sarah, and Drew are hard to adjust to, stepfamilies find it difficult to create a new sense of family between themselves. However, managing their uncertainty and boundaries effectively may help them become a family unit sooner rather than later. 6 References Afifi, T. D., & Schrodt, P. (2003). Uncertainty and the avoidance of the state of one’s family in stepfamilies, post-divorce single families, and first marriage families. Human Communication Research, 29, 516-532. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2958.2003.tb00854.x Amato, P. R., & Afifi, T. D. (2006). Feeling caught between parents: Adult children’s relations with parents and subjective well-being. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, 222-235. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00243.x Baxter, L.A., & Braithwaite, D.O., Bryant, L.E., & Wagner, A.E. (2004). Stepchildren’s perceptions of the contradictions in communication with stepparents. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 21, 447-467. Braithwaite, D.O., & Baxter, L.A. (2006). You’re my parent but you’re not: Dialectical tensions in stepchildren’s perceptions about communication with the nonresidential parent. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 34, 30-48. Braithwaite, D. O., Olson, L., Golish, T., Soukup, C., & Turman, P. (2001). Developmental communication patterns of blended families: Exploring the different trajectory of blended families. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 29, 221-247. Mikucki-Enyart, S. (2012, November). Stepfamily Relationships. Lecture conducted from University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. Petronio, S. (2002). Boundaries of privacy: Dialectics of disclosure. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
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