Principles of Effective Communication

Know your audience.are they well versed in terminologies relevant to your topic, or should you use common words.

Anticipate objections and be prepared to accept them

Follow through on what you say Go into detail don’t mention one thing and talk about something else.

Develop a practical, useful way to get feedback Question and Answer sessions (open forum) are a way to get feedback.

Communication is the simultaneous sharing and creating of meaning through human symbolic interaction, according to Seiler and Beall,1999, is the art and process of creating and sharing ideas by imparting or exchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or ______

Communication occurs wherever one system, a source, influences another, the destination, by manipulation of alternative symbols, which can be transmitted over the channel connecting them, as stated by Osgood et al,. 1957, is social interaction through ______

Communication is the transmission of information, ideas, attitudes, or emotion from one person or group to another primarily through ______, as per Theodorson and Theodorson, 1969

According to Kincaid and Schramm, not all communication has to be human communication. Not all participants in a communication process have to be present at the same time. Communication can take place over large distances of space and time. Not all communication takes place in ______

Communication does not always require two or more participants. Thinking is a form of ______, according to Kincaid and Schramm

Communication as a process has four attributes: 1. SYSTEMATIC - Consist of group of elements which interact to influence each other and the system as a whole 2. DYNAMIC - On-going; ever-changing, with no clear beginnings and endings. 3. MEANING IS PERSONALLY CONSTRUCTED - Meanings are in people, not in words. 4. ______ INTERACTION - Language is a form of symbol