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Melissa Schuck, MA

7-2: Final Project

Introduction

Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values

[To set the stage for your analysis and proposals, begin with a self-assessment focused on your communication practices prior to taking this course. Appraise your initial attitudes, beliefs, and values with regard to your own communication technology behaviors and practices for their impact on one or more of your personal relationships. Support your evaluation with examples that illustrate each of the following. Is there one area in which you may have experienced the greatest impact? The least?

- Relationship initiation

- Relationship development

- Relationship maintenance

- Relationship dissolution

Impacts of Communication Technology

[Explain the impacts of communication technology on your relationships. Have they made you more or less effective in your communication? Specifically, have they enhanced or hindered your relationships? Support your response with examples.]

Analysis of a Key Relationship

Key Relationship

[Select one key relationship in your life to examine. Discuss the key relationship you selected and present your reasoning for this choice. Specifically, how is this case ripe for applying communication theories, concepts, and strategies to make more informed decisions? For example, a particular concept may have prompted you to select the relationship you have with your mother-in-law who lives across the country. In that case, a better understanding of that relationship is important to you for more informed family decision making.

Relevant Concepts or Theories

[What relevant concepts or theories from the course inform your understanding of this relationship? Consider at least two major concepts. Compare and contrast these concepts or theories in addressing what they have taught you about effective and ineffective communication practices in this relationship. Support your response with course readings and appropriate research.]

Use of Communication Technology

[Evaluate your use of communication technology in this relationship. What makes the usage of this technology successful or unsuccessful? Support your response with examples. This is where you might discuss instances of positive interactions and miscommunications and the results and consequences of those interactions.]

Information Exchange

[To what extent does the use of communication technologies in this relationship make information exchange complex? Justify your response with examples and draw connections to appropriate concepts or theories from the course.]

Proposed Applications and Strategies

Applying Communication Technologies

[In this area you will address practical applications and strategies for improving your communications within your key relationship and for developing effective communication habits moving forward. Based on your assessment of your key relationship, discuss specific examples where you could apply new or different communication technologies effectively in this relationship. Also, provide specific examples of situations in which it would be harmful or ineffective to use communication technologies. For each, support your claims with relevant theories and concepts from the course and your research.]

Improving Communication

[Propose specific strategies you might employ to improve communication within your key interpersonal relationship. For each proposed strategy, provide an explanation founded in relevant theories and concepts from the course and your research.]

Other Interpersonal Relationships

[To what extent could these strategies improve your communication in your other interpersonal relationships? Support your response with appropriate concepts or theories from the course and your research.]

Conclusion

[To close the loop opened at the beginning of this paper, discuss if, how, and why your attitudes, beliefs, and values with regard to communication technology use and interpersonal relationships have or have not shifted since the beginning of this course. If they have not changed, discuss how and why.]

References

[At least 6 resources must be integrated into the paper. List APA style end citations for any resources used in the paper. These end citations must be listed alphabetically on this page. End citation formatting must be: 12 pt., double-spaced, black, Times New Roman, .5 inch hanging indent. Remember that all end citations must have corresponding APA style in-text citations at all points in the paper where content from resources is used.]