Personal Experience: Improving Communication Skills

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In this paper, I will analyze my accomplishment, expectation, improvement, the concept that were challenging to me along with concept that I have mastered throughout the course of Introduction to Communication.
On the first day of class, my expectation for this course was to help me understand who I am along with improving my communication skills. Understanding who I am is very critical for me in order to improve myself and become successful later on in the future. On the other hand, communication is a form of methods that all human used to communicate with one another. With good communication skills, it changes the ways that people interpreted each other. In the first two units of this course Commination and Culture, I have learned that languages
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As the course process, I have taken a test called Myers-Briggs Type Indicator/Jung 's Typology Test to determine what type of person I am either extrovert or an introvert. According to the Myers-Briggs type indicator and Jung’s typology test, I scored really high in extrovert compared to introvert. I have learned that different people have different perception of different things along with their decision. The reason so is that people experience different situations in which we may never experience before which lead them to their perceptions and decisions in certain things like death penalties and the right to bear arm. Over time people can also change their perceptions and decisions in certain things by interacting with one another. We may never understand other people perceptions and their decision unless we had experience what they had been through before. “You can’t feel the pain yet, because the needles haven’t poked you yet.” With these two units, it had enhanced my knowledge on communication along with ways that I can improve myself. Some of the ways that I can improve myself is that I have to first fully understand the other person point of …show more content…
The reason so was that I speak more than one language and that English is my secondary language not primary; therefore, when interpreting the language context, I was having trouble on understand what it means. This lesson had also taught me that if I don’t understand this language well like other people do than I have to work twice as hard as other people do in order to catch up. This world and the society is not going to stop for me to catch up but it will continue to spin and keep going; therefore, I can’t give up because that’s not what a successful person do but a loser action. On the other hand, one of the topics that I mastered in this course was Knapp and Vangelisti’s model of relationship. In this concept I understand that relationship is made up of ten steps and that not everyone goes through these ten steps. Some may skip some steps while other may not reach to certain steps like other people. Overall, we have to cherish all of our relationships no matter what type of relationships it is that we have right now before it

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