Essentials of Communication Guide Questions:

1. What are the different myths about communication?

 The more you communicate, the better your communication will be.
 When two people are in a close relationship, neither person should have to communicate needs
and wants explicitly; the other person should know what these are.
 Interpersonal or group conflict is a reliable sign that the relationship or group is in trouble.
 Like good communicators, leaders are born, not made.
 Fear of speaking in public is detrimental and must be eliminated.

2. What are the different skills of human communication?

 Self-presentation skills
 Relationship skills
 Interviewing skills
 Group interaction and leadership skills
 Presentation or public-speaking skills

3. What are the different forms of human communication?

 Interpersonal communication
 Interviewing
 Small-group communication
 Public communication
 Computer-mediated communication
 Mass communication
4. Differentiate between linear and transactional views of communication.
To easily pinpoint the difference between linear and transactional models of communication,
we must first focus on the elements present to each of the models. In linear, there is a speaker,
channel and listener. Meanwhile in transactional, all of the aforementioned elements in linear
are retained but with the additional of the keyword: FEEDBACK. This means that in
transactional, the communication process becomes 2-way which means both the sender and
receiver take turns in the conversation. On the other hand, linear is more called a
transmission because the messaged is just merely being delivered but there is no actual
conversation taking place.

5. How does context influence communication?

Context is the catalyst of change in the way a speaker delivers his/her message, thus influencing the
communication process – whether it’s the message or the feedback of the listener. It gives the
speaker a sense of sensitivity and adaptation to his surroundings and audience. A speaker should
possess the flexibility when it comes to delivering his/her message and consider the appropriateness
of it in accordance to physical, cultural, social-psychological, and temporal context.
6. What are the different principles essentials to the understanding of human
communication?
 Communication is Purposeful
 Communication involves choices
 Communication is ambiguous
 Communication involves content and relationship dimensions
  Communication has a power dimension
 Communication is punctuated
 Communication Is Inevitable, Irreversible, And Unrepeatable

Guide questions (Video)

1. What are the elements present in the communication process?
 Sender
 Encoding
 Message
 Medium
 Receiver
 Decoding
 Feedback
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2. What are the functions of each element?

 Sender – answers the “who” in the communication process; the source of the information being
conveyed; the one in charge for encoding a particular message.
 Encoding – the process by which the sender strings sentences, words, punctuations, and symbols
What are the functions of each element?
altogether to form an efficient transmission of message.
 Message – answers the “what” in the communication process; the information being transmitted
to the receiver whether it’s an opinion, ideas, feelings, suggestions, views and orders.
 Medium – answers “through which” in the communication process; the channel through which
we’re going to communicate the message.
 Receiver – answers “to whom” in the communication process; the one in charge for interpreting,
decoding, and reacting to the message transmitted by the sender.
 Decoding – the process by which the receiver converts, interprets and analyzes the message he/she
receives in order to come up with a feedback/reaction.
 Feedback – answers the “with what effect” in the communication process; this is the reply or
reaction of the receiver regarding the messaged being relayed to him/her. Moreover, this is the
indicator whether the communication process has become effective or not.

3. Are the functions of these elements interchangeable?

Yes, because there are times in which the sender becomes the receiver and vice versa. For an
instance, right after the original sender relays the message to the receiver, the receiver might
react/reply to this message making him/her the new source of information which is to be
interpreted by the original sender.

4. What are the different theories of communication discussed in the video? (5) and functions of each?
 Authentic theory of communication - good communication shouldn't interfere with ideas in any
way. Good communication should only transmit our ideas free of distortion or manipulation.
 Reflective Theory of communication - in terms of communication our goal should contain the
collected voices of others, of social norms and expectations of common cultural values. We are less
the authors of our messages than we'd otherwise presume. Our messages, our thinking and even
our senses of self are more like conversations shared by many different people. A person's ability to
integrate broad activities of any given social whole or organized society is the essential basis and
prerequisite of the fullest development of that individual self.
 Artful Theory of Communication - People craft and revise their identities less from some deep
fundamental internal core and more from a desire to influence how others see us. We cobble our
messages together from anything we can find hoping to design ourselves into being as a perspective
on communication. Artistic theory enables us to craft messages for effects. This approach