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How strange was it to discover that ART 175 and ENG 209 courses would intertwine while studying for a quiz on art history this past week. I learned the significance of human heritage and the importance of communication. Its my belief that the written word preceded the spoken word as evidenced in the form of rock art or cave paintings. Our ancestors realized the need to record their thoughts in low-context such as rock art cave paintings, and petroglyphs for future generations. Eurocentric versions of communication tend to lean toward high-context nonverbal cues at sociocultural levels.

I’ve never been a confident test taker no matter how hard I study. The anxiety of tests, quizzes, or exams makes me hyperventilate causing me to temporarily forget what I learned. My worst fears are true and false questions or multiple choice combinations. The reason is I misread the question(s), misunderstand or misinterpret what is being asked and then make the wrong choice.  I have often been told that your first answer is usually correct. Because of second guessing myself on the English 209 quiz, I am blogging to share my life lesson and because by doing so it will also improve my quiz score. A big self-improvement that I have made is to B R E A T H E deeply when I feel like giving up!

Here at Windward Community College, there is definitely a presence of chickens on our campus. But, then again after hurricane Iniki, all our islands have been overrun by them. I believe that Kauai island has adopted this fowl as their mascot as chickens and roosters are everywhere. Like the Waikiki pigeons these birds live on and roam our school grounds. Students or visitors that are not really animal lovers find them to be a novelty. Most people instantly “share” their food with the chickens and I am guilty of feeding them too. However, their droppings are a health hazard and more recently the chickens have been “snatching” people’s food. They do not fear humans, are complacent to exist with us, have become aggressive and brazenly enter our buildings. The most compelling plea to everyone is that human food is not good for them. They and our environment would benefit if the feral chickens would forage for insects instead. Cock a doodle doo!

 

I chose this exercise to do because I thought it would identify whether I have excellent or deficient listening skills. Because I purchased a used book from Chegg.com, I was not able to do the quiz without the access code. The task was to identify two listening behaviors that I need to work on the most.

I  been told that I have selective hearing, but, I disagree. My hearing is excellent and I can multi-listen as well as multi-task. The definition of hearing is the ability to perceive sound and listening means hearing with attention to sound. Two behaviors I need to work on are: 1) interpreting what was communicated correctly and 2) being able to relay the information verbatim.

Like the anal retentive guy in the power point I had difficulty remembering how to create a blog. Voila! I finally figured it out, so here I am for the fifth time because the power point would not save.

 

 

Just want to know if anyone realized that Chapter 1 ESSENTIALS of BUSINESS COMMUNICATION download was supposed to be 9e was really 8e instead.