Last stop, bloggers!

Well, after this entry, friends, I bid you farewell from COMM 301 blog-land--double credit for this last posting: Pick a cultural practice important to you this time of year (could be ethnic/could be spiritual/could be familial in nature) and tell us about it in a couple sentences...then relate it to the concept of audience analysis--thit is explaining a unique practice in a way that is inclusive for folks who celebrate/worship/live life differently than you do. perhaps the most important skill you will take away from this class--considering and adapting as sensitively as possible to your listeners and making it clear that we are all very different, but if we want to have important, difficult and eye-opening discussions, we can find common ground and convey mutual respect--REMEMBER: reasonable people can and often do differ in opinions but most of us want the overall big picture goals in life: Happiness, stability, love and connections. Your mastery of persuasion along with our thrilling anti-speech mini debate rounds Thursday and next Tuesday are grounded in these closing ideas of the fall 2009 semester! --Smiles and Hope--Your proud teacher!