UNIV 104 CHAPTER 8 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Power Process: Choose Your Conversations and Your Community - Answers -
Conversations can exist in many forms. One form involves people talking out loud to
each other. At other times, the conversation takes place inside our own heads, and we
call it thinking. We are even having a conversation when we read a magazine or a book,
watch television or a movie, or write a letter or a report. These observations have three
implications that wind their way through every aspect of our lives.
Choosing to Listen - Answers - - Be quiet
- Maintain eye contact
- Display openness
- Send acknowledgments
- Release distractions
- Suspend judgments
- Choose when to respond
- Feed back meaning
- Notice verbal and nonverbal messages
- Listen for requests and intentions
- Allow emotion
- Ask for more
- Be careful with questions
Choosing to Speak - Answers - - Replace "you" messages with "I" messages
- Remember that questions are not always questions
- Choose your nonverbal messages
- Notice barriers to sending messages
Classroom Civility - Answers - - Without civility, you lose
- With civility, you win
- Attend classes regularly and on time
- During class, participate fully
- Communicate respect
- Embrace diversity
Enroll Your Instructor in Your Success - Answers - - Research the instructor
- Show interest in class
- Get to know the instructor
- Separate liking from learning
- Form your own opinion about each instructor
- Seek alternatives
- Avoid excuses
- Submit professional work
ANSWERS
Power Process: Choose Your Conversations and Your Community - Answers -
Conversations can exist in many forms. One form involves people talking out loud to
each other. At other times, the conversation takes place inside our own heads, and we
call it thinking. We are even having a conversation when we read a magazine or a book,
watch television or a movie, or write a letter or a report. These observations have three
implications that wind their way through every aspect of our lives.
Choosing to Listen - Answers - - Be quiet
- Maintain eye contact
- Display openness
- Send acknowledgments
- Release distractions
- Suspend judgments
- Choose when to respond
- Feed back meaning
- Notice verbal and nonverbal messages
- Listen for requests and intentions
- Allow emotion
- Ask for more
- Be careful with questions
Choosing to Speak - Answers - - Replace "you" messages with "I" messages
- Remember that questions are not always questions
- Choose your nonverbal messages
- Notice barriers to sending messages
Classroom Civility - Answers - - Without civility, you lose
- With civility, you win
- Attend classes regularly and on time
- During class, participate fully
- Communicate respect
- Embrace diversity
Enroll Your Instructor in Your Success - Answers - - Research the instructor
- Show interest in class
- Get to know the instructor
- Separate liking from learning
- Form your own opinion about each instructor
- Seek alternatives
- Avoid excuses
- Submit professional work
