Vocabulary
Telecommuting
Working from home or from home office, computer or devices.
Communication Competence
This is one's ability to choose among available communicative behaviors to accomplish one's goals during an encounter, encompassing knowing what is appropriate in a given situation, having the skills to enact communication strategy.
Strategic Communication
This type of communication involves setting communication goals and then enacting verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors consistent with predetermined objectives
Impression Management
Deliberately designing verbal and nonverbal messages to create a particular set of impressions.
Richness
A medium's capacity for resolving confusion, solving disagreements, bridging multiple or competing interpretations of a message, and facilitation understanding.
what type of reading skill is when looking up a word in a dictionary or finding your friend's name in the contacts directory of your phone.
When one reads the text only in order to understand the thesis statement, in one or two lines what type of reading skill is this.
skimming
The light from a lamp helps a person see the words in the book.
light reading
What type of reading skill is when you read every word of the story in your head or out loud.
word by word
Making flash cards and looking over them over and over until you memorize it.
studying
personal essays, fairy tales, short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, autobiographies are what type of writing skill.
narrative writing
The ways of meeting oppression, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
analytic writing
This morning at 9am, a school bus collided with a car at the intersection of Jones and Heard streets.
expository writing
Mandatory minimum sentencing is harmful to the human race. It is a form of discrimination; many people receive long sentences for minor crimes.
Persuasive writing
It presents two sides of a single issue, and covers the most important arguments for and against.
Argumentative writing
reading a short paragraph about what the story was about to get the main idea.
summarizing
first, next, then, and so on.
sequencing
A character has a diaper in her hand, spit-up on her shirt, and a bottle warming on the counter.
inferencing
Coming up with a solution that resolves the problem.
problem-solving
Asking questions to yourself while listening to someone talk.
self-questioning
Verbs, nouns, adjectives
Grammar
Going over and checking your words throughout your essay.
spelling
Checking over your sentences to make sure they are correct and that their are commas where they are suppose to be.
punctuation
Using words like I, me, my, we, and so on.
Formal writing
It, you, them, they are examples of what form of writing.
Informal writing