Helping TAG students improve on communication
Spoken or Verbal Communication: face-to-face, telephone, radio or television and other media.
Non-Verbal Communication: body language, gestures, how we dress or act - even our scent.
Written Communication: letters, e-mails, books, magazines, the Internet or via other media.
Visualizations: graphs, charts, maps, logos and other visualizations can communicate messages.
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Oral Communication: The ability to explain and present your ideas in clear English to diverse audiences. That is the ability to tailor your delivery to a given audience, using appropriate styles and approaches. With oral communication, one needs the background skill of presenting, the awareness of the audience, critical listening and body language.
Written Communication: This is the ability to write effectively in a range of context and for a variety of different audiences and purposes, with a command of the English language. This may include the ability to tailor your writing to a given audience, using appropriate styles and approaches. It also includes electronic communication such as SMS, emails, discussion board, chat room and instant messaging. Skill such as academic writing, revision and editing, critical reading and presentation of data are very necessary for writing communication.
Non-Verbal Communication: The ability to enhance the expression of ideas and concepts without the use of coherent labels through the use of body language, gestures, facial expression and tone of voice. It also includes the use of pictures icons and this type of communication requires skills such as audience awareness, personal presentation and body language.
Intrapersonal communication: What you think and say about yourself? This is determined by your self-esteem, physical, moral-ethic, family and social life.
Interpersonal: Is the exchange of information between two or more people. That is message sending and message receiving. It becomes successful when both parties understand the message.
Group/ Team communication: Group communication is when a group communicates with others. It is not just one person giving the message, it is several people.
Workplace communication: Workplace communication is the process of exchanging information, both verbal and non-verbal, within an organization. An organization may consist of employees from different parts of the society. In order to unite the activities of all employees, communication is crucial.
Public/Media communication: Communication that isn’t private to a certain group. For instance, posting a message on the message board that anyone can access is public. Also saying something in public where a lot of people could easily gain access to as well as public communication.
Intercultural communication: Is a form of communication that aims to share information across different cultures and social groups. It is used to describe the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within an organization made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds. Intercultural communication is sometimes used synonymously with cross-cultural communication. In this sense it seeks to understand how people from different countries and cultures act, communicate and perceive the world around them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_communication
