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DISCUSSION 

prepare: As you prepare to write this discussion post, take a few moments to

• Read the writing prompt below in its entirety. Notice that there are three tasks to complete:
  • Complete the following listening survey and record your results: Active Listening Skills (Links to an external site.)
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  • Using Bevan and Sole (2014), start formulating preliminary definitions of empathy and active empathic listening.
  • Consider how empathy and active empathic listening specifically can help you improve your personal and professional communication.
• Reread Section 7.2: Conversation Management - Listening.
• Read Chapter 8 on empathy and active empathic listening.

Based on your quiz results and what you learned in Section 7.2 and 8.3 of the text, answer the following questions:

• What is your willingness-to-listen score? What feedback did you receive from the quiz?
• Based on Bevan and Sole, describe active empathic listening.
• How can you use active empathic listening to help you improve your communication both in your personal interactions and in the workplace? Please provide examples to illustrate these points.

Thoroughly address all three elements of this prompt by writing at least two to three sentences on each element. Use the course readings at least once to help you make your points. Consider copying and pasting these tasks into a word file and addressing each of them separately.

Your initial response should be 200 to 300 words in length 

ASSIGNMENT

PLEASE USE SAMPLE PROVIDED FOR AN OUTLINE 

Watch ANY one episode of MODERN FAMILY one of the above television programs and identify and describe one interpersonal conflict that was not handled effectively. Based on what you have learned in Chapters 8 and 9 of Bevan and Sole (2014), write a two-page paper explaining why the conflict was not handled effectively and describe the strategies that could have been used to resolve this conflict. Be sure to focus on one particular interpersonal conflict and not the television show as a whole. The television programs can be found in syndication, weekly on air, and through the links provided above.

Before you submit this paper, you must do the assignment training for this paper and take the quiz.

The Interpersonal Conflict in Television paper

• Must be two double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style. For assistance, visit the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Essay Checklist for Students (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must include a title page with the following: (For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, please refer to the Formatting Instructions for MS Word 2013 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.)
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper. For assistance on writing Introductions and Conclusions (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as well as Thesis Statements (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., please refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
• Must use the textbook as a source. The Integrating Research (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. tutorial will offer further assistance on including supporting information and reasoning.
• Must document any information from a source in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s In-Text Citation Guide (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must include a separate APA References List (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. that is formatted according to APA style.  Given you will be citing a single episode, instead of the series, please review the Ashford Writing Center’s guidelines for Common APA Reference List Models (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..  Follow the instructions for referencing a single episode of a television series.