Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Topic
Pause-Think-Respond
Communication Skills today was rather simple. The only troublesome part was the writing of letter. I believe my group has the best letter compared to the rest. Faci commented that we have a very good structure for our letter. Hahax Great work by Khai who wrote the letter and Paulene who edited it.
I hope my RJ did not go out of point. I was tired when I wrote the RJ. Yup I wrote the RJ in the bus again. I wrote the last part at home though.
Disclaimer
Please do not Plagiarize the content of my RJ for it will result in an Instant F on your Daily Grade. You are allowed use my RJ as a Reference or as a guide but do not copy the content I have written. The school has some interesting ways to detect any form of Plagiarism so please use my RJ with caution
Question
After going through today’s lesson, what concerns do you have about expressing your thoughts in public and how will you address these concerns?
Answer
After going through today's lesson, I realised that there are more to just knowing your audience when it comes to expressing my thoughts in public. There are other concerns about the audience we have to look into before we go around expressing our thoughts to them.
There bound to be certain things in the content of our thoughts that can seem totally harmless yet hurtful to others. That is when the emotions of the audiences come into consideration.
Somehow it seems like every single flaw in expressing one’s thoughts to the public amounts to the audience’s feelings. We all know very well that when it comes to the public, it is best not to hurt the audience in any way or the impact on you can be very unpleasant. Do not underestimate the power of public complains.
At times when expressing my thoughts, it requires me to take sides. When that happens, it is inevitable that everyone would be biased on one view over another. Biasness can result in triggering my audience’s emotion.
The best way to avoid any form of misunderstanding that would lead to hurting the audience’s feelings would be to phrase my words well in a nice structured manner with a proper flow of content to my audience. Though we may be bias on one view, phrasing words properly can give an impression of being neutral.
When sharing personal views, we have to be careful not to say or write something that may be offensive to others. We can be offensive to other indirectly as we tend phrase a sentence so harmlessly and yet when being read as a whole, it can interpreted as something offensive. Like how it seems better to phrase sentences in a way to show that we are trying give a suggestion instead of trying instruct the audience to follow the steps on how you want them to do it.
Clemence Chang
