EXPRESSED DISAGREEMENT

The concept that I wanted to discuss is Expressed Disagreement in chapter nine. I thought this was important because it talks about people and how they communicate their disagreements with each other: Directly and Indirectly. Something that I found interesting is when Wood sates “ Interpersonal conflict is expressed disagreement, struggle, or discord. Thus it is not a conflict if we don’t recognize disagreement or anger,” (224). This was interesting because a disagreement is not a conflict until people show their disagreement either directly or indirectly. Which means that when people don’t show how they feel then there is not a conflict.  Directly showing your disagreement is when you say something to the other person that shows how you feel because how you are saying something. When someone shows they disagree indirectly they can’t look at someone with a mean face. This lets the other person know that you are angry. You don’t even need to say something for someone to know how you feel.

MY FAVORITES!

My favorite thing out this class was the discussion questions. I thought these really helped me to better understand each chapter. I also was able to put my own experiences into most of the discussions. This helped me because it helped to improve my communication with a variety of people. I also liked the discussions because we were able to pick out a concept we thought was interesting. I thought this was good because we are able to pick what we want to write about and this helps because we tend to write more on something were interested about.  I really enjoyed the comments that we had to post on other students blog. This gave us a way to communicate good and read their opinions and personal experiences about the discussion question. I think I learned a lot from the other students by doing this.

There was nothing that was really bad in this class. I thought everything was pretty easy. The only thing I would say that was my least favorite was the essays (only because I don’t like writing essays :D).

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED....

I have learned a lot in COMM 10 this semester. I think I have learned helpful information that improved my communication with others. I learned that we need to understand ourselves and how we think of ourselves. I learned what makes a good relationship, which is good communication. In communication there are many parts that go with it. Communication is about listening and understanding others and giving them respect. I learned that there are many ways to communicate good and bad with both friends and partners. We need to respect their thoughts on things and learn when to not interrupt others because to have good communication with others we need to listen. I think communications helped me a lot because I had a lot of bad communication habits but I was not a where of them. This class taught me how to be respectful to other through communication. I learned that how you communicate with others really matters because people base you on how you communicate towards them.