Presentation created for COMM 107 - Oral Communication: Principles and Practice
University of Maryland
Source: Communication: A Social and Career Focus by Berko, Wolvin & Wolvin
20. Noise Environmental Physiological-impairment Semantic Syntactical Organizational Cultural Psychological Can happen at any stage. You have to learn how to deal with it by constantly seeking feedback
29. Ethical communication Ethical communication is to conform to the moral standards of their society Unethical communicators use language that degrades or injures human personalities by exaggeration, pseudotruths, twisting of words and name-calling
30. Ethical communication Raise listeners’ level of expertise on a topic Avoid mental or physical coercion Give credit to source Don’t invent or fabricate information Remember! Listeners have to be ethical too, by taking things in with a grain of salt