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Professional Communication Skills Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Combining information from several different sources to create your work and either failing to properly cite them all or failing to add your own original contribution






2. Standards for behavior that people don't alter even when the situation warrants






3. To pay attention to sound. To hear something with thoughtful attention: give consideration






4. The source's act of transforming an idea into a message to transmit to a receiver






5. This refers to a tendency for group members to seek social harmony so much that it negatively impacts their decision-making abilities






6. The perspective that the ethical quality of an action is determined by the intentions and virtue of the actor






7. The extent to which the message after transmission is similar to the message originally transmitted






8. Revealing personal or intimate information to an online audience






9. A culture in which the emphasis in on how intention or meaning can best be conveyed through the context and nonverbal channels






10. The process in which you are engaging when you share personal or intimate information with an online audience






11. Mediated communication that occurs with both participants attending message exchange in real-time






12. The medium through which a message passes on its way from source to receiver






13. The process where you rearticulate - in your words - what you learned from consulting the research of an original author






14. A type of therapy that helps alleviate people's fears through directed conversation






15. The substantive aspect of a message






16. Modifying or changing the structure - design and/or delivery of your speech to your listeners to enhance message clarity - as well as making your examples and illustrations specifically applicable to your audience to help achieve and maintain audienc






17. Taking another person's work in full and representing it as your one while making little or nor change to the material






18. Describes the physical process of sound waves bouncing off of an eardrum






19. Cultures that work together to achieve a democratic and egalitarian decision-making process and power structure






20. A situation that forces one to choose between two or more competing ethical principles - or between options that could compromise your ethical principles but protect one's self-interests






21. Stage of the five-step - active-listening model involves answering and giving feedback.






22. The overall feel of the group - composed of all the group's relationships






23. Shyness or communication apprehension






24. Refers to audience members' general likes and dislikes in relation to particular subjects






25. Process of communicating and interpreting communication—the official communication terms for these processes






26. Failing to properly attribute to a specific piece of information to its source - including faulty paraphrasing






27. The recipient of a message






28. To explain or tell the meaning of; to conceive in the light of individual belief - judgment - or circumstance






29. A sense of 'stuckness' when trying to write

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30. Areas of the citations- like author - title - journal title - abstract or full text- that are found in various journals






31. A way of better understanding your audience by compiling attitudinal information relative to values - beliefs - and ideology of your audience






32. A creative method in which each person comes up with ideas on their own before sharing with the rest of the group






33. Specialized and complicated terminology used by a particular discipline






34. Recasting your interpretation of an event from a different perspective






35. Theory of the perfect team size according to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos






36. A tension between two opposing but valuable preferences






37. Audience members' likes and dislikes






38. The interplay between encoding and decoding messages






39. To mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of; to distinguish by discerning or exposing differences






40. A person who is a compulsive communicator. He or she seemingly cannot 'shut-up'






41. The process whereby one person stimulates meaning in the mind of another through verbal and/or nonverbal means






42. Communication that is not occurring in real-time






43. The symbolic exchange process whereby individuals form two or more different cultural communities negotiate shared meanings in an interactive situation






44. One feature of many online communication technologies - particularly text-based. Communication and messages are logged or achieved in one or more places and can be accessed later






45. A type of book that does not consist of one comprehensive study but instead a number of studies written by various authors






46. Hierarchical cultures where there is a clear chain of command and communication interactions are dependent on where one's position falls on the hierarchy






47. Motivating team members using a system of rewards and punishments






48. The minimum number of people needed to achieve the desired results






49. Therapeutic technique that helps alleviate people's fear through directed conversation






50. Falsely representing any material obtained from another source as your own work







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