COMM 110

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Beyond Aristotle - Chp 1

*Humans- need to communicate

- better communication betters your relationships

*Communication is more than just public speaking!

- Aristotle's essentials for speaking: ethos, pathos, logos

***Ethos Most Vital to effective communication

- Credibility

***Pathos

- Emotional manipulation

***Logos

- Logic and reasoning

- usually misused - this is to create understanding not to have people agree with you

Communication is:

- constantly occurring

- constantly changing

- involves an exchange

- involves a relationship

- human communication bonding process

- heavily influenced by culture and co-culture

- power

- a process

The Process of Communication - Chp 2

- Source- started conversation

- Encoder - took thoughts/ word pictures and turned them into words/nonwords so other person understood

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