What pain points might a user have in attempting to complete the task you have described in question #1?  In other words, what special challenges might some users encounter when trying to complete the task?

For writing assignment #2, you are asked to write a set of instructions that explain how to accomplish a task on a website.  The website should involve your local community.  For example, you could write about how to reserve a book online from your local library.  The instructions for the writing assignment give other examples of topics as well.
For writing assignment #1, you are asked to write three personas in preparation for writing assignment #2.
Please answer the following questions:
1. What topic are you considering for writing assignment #2?
2. For this topic, you will need to make some screen captures of the website.  In addition, you will need to blur out any private information  create one screen capture for your set of instructions and post it to this discussion topic.
3. What pain points might a user have in attempting to complete the task you have described in question #1?  In other words, what special challenges might some users encounter when trying to complete the task?  The class resources for this week provide some information on pain points.  note especially the interview with Dr. Kirk St. Amant and Dr. Guiseppe Getto as well as the video on writing assignments #1 and #2.
To help you prepare, in our class, a sample for writing assignment #1 and a sample for writing assignment #2 are provided. The two samples show how writing assignment #1 and writing assignment #2 are related.

Why should read this analysis? What’s interesting, enlightening, or significant about this topic?

Stance and Audience

Assume that your audience is not enrolled in this course and has not closely examined corporate communication.

You’ll need to educate and inform them of relevant information and concepts, and you’ll need to contextualize your analysis in a way that answers your readers’ questions, “Why should read this analysis? What’s interesting, enlightening, or significant about this topic?”
Take a stance that is both fascinated by but critical towards corporate activity. We can learn a lot about organizational acumen by studying a corporation’s communication practices, and at the same time we can criticize that behavior when warranted.
Document Design and Submission

What are the major differences between a working and a nonworking group? Between a working and a nonworking member?

Group Therapy

There are important differences between effective and ineffective confrontation. How would you explain this difference to group members? Think about how you might respond to a person who had been in your group for some time and who said, “I don’t see why we focus so much on problems and on confronting people with negative feelings. All this makes me want to retreat. I’m afraid to say much because I’d rather hear positive feedback.”

What are the major differences between a working and a nonworking group? Between a working and a nonworking member?

What would you want to teach members during the working stage about giving and receiving feedback?

What problem will this project solve? What opportunity can be achieved?

Communication gap between management and staff.

Brief Summary of the Project:
The objective of this project is to identify the causes of miscommunication between Managers and staff in an office setting.

Anticipated Learning Outcome:
How to overcome the barriers to effective communication.

What problem will this project solve? What opportunity can be achieved?
This project will solve how a person’s communication skills affect both personal and organizational effectiveness.

This opportunity can be achieved by investigating the line of efforts that the lack of communication would have in an office setting and providing recommendations on improving communication between managers and staff.

Provide examples of how this is manifested in our everyday lives.How does media create meanings about gender?

After studying the assigned reading Sociology: The Social Construction of Gender and considering the concept of “gender as socially constructed,” answer the following questions and prompts.

A) How does media create meanings about gender?

B) Provide examples of how this is manifested in our everyday lives.

C) Provide a link to a commercial/ad that stereotypes gender. Even though it is natural to find humor in some of these portrayals, in what ways is this problematic.

Also, consider that sex is a system of classification based on biology and physiology, while gender reflects the cultural meaning that is ascribed to a person’s sex, thus resulting in labels of “masculinity and femininity.” Furthermore, our biology is not distinctively male or female and a significant number of people are born “intersex” with variations in chromosomes or sexual organs. Most biological researchers agree on the estimation that intersex people are about as common as encountering someone with green eyes.

How do you respond and how do you ensure the children remain safe?

What Would You Do?

You are investigating a case in which the Boyfriend (BF) of the mother is alleged to being sexually abusing the mother’s 7 and 6 year old sons. The school called it in saying the children are constantly falling asleep at school, acting sexual with the other children in school, sexually flirting with the teachers, and peeing on themselves. All the classic signs of Child Sexual Abuse. You talk to the children and they say the BF of the mother demands they take a shower with him.

You ask the mother if she knows that her BF is a registered sex offender of a 1 year old girl 10 years ago . She says yes but that was when he was 30 and it was with this “16 year old slut girl and he wouldn’t do this to my boys because he is not Gay because he has sex with me daily”. How do you respond and how do you ensure the children remain safe?

Why are you losing?! What can we do to fix the situation?

Poster and Abstract 

We are a telecommunications company and we are required to study the market and determine the quantity of production + prices + marketing value + if we need financing or not We are trying to connect the above ideas with what we have settled in the company Currently, the company is at a loss. Why are you losing?! What can we do to fix the situation?

Some ideas I have ١- differences between local and international markets 2- studying the market – competitors 3- right time for investment 4- reaction toward the market 5- risk and mitigation in international market 6- what is the international market

Briefly discuss why you think these theories will help explain your phenomenon. Locate at least two academic journals articles that will help you understand more about your theories and include them in a bibliography page.

The Research Proposal/Prospectus will introduce the communication phenomenon that you will investigate.
It will then discuss, in about one page, what you currently know or believe about the phenomenon.
You should then name two theories or concepts from the textbook that might help explain what is going on this situation and briefly discuss why you think these theories will help explain your phenomenon.
Locate at least two academic journals articles that will help you understand more about your theories and include them in a bibliography page.

Based on the feedback you receive from your instructor you will develop the final compare/contrast paper. The library has a communication and mass media database that is the best place to find appropriate articles. To access this database, follow the steps below:

Log in to the MGA Library Website
Click on “FIND ARTICLES: GALILEO”
Scroll down to the column labeled “DATABASES BY SUBJECT” and click on the link for “VIEW ALL SUBJECTS>”
In the pop-up menu click on “Communication & Mass Media”
Scroll down to find and click on “Communication & Mass Media Complete”

What is/are the goal/s of this speech? Is it informative, epideictic, and/or persuasive? If more than one, what is its primary mode, and why? Which rhetorical proofs  does this speech use? To what extent are they effective?

Respond to each question in this section with four to eight sentences. Aim for completeness and clarity.

Choose the false dilemma fallacy we’ve discussed in class. Describe how you would teach this fallacy to someone without any experience in the subject. You might include a definition, example, and any other information that will help your student learn.

Drawing on the course, describe the elements of a speaking situation or context. What are those elements, and how can they help a speaker better understand the context in which they plan to speak?

Section D: Essay
Watch one of the following videos or pick your own video, then answer the questions below in two to three paragraphs.

Option one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llci8MVh8J4

Option two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueMNqdB1QIE

Option Three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO-CzrWQ4y4&feature=emb_title

What is/are the goal/s of this speech? Is it informative, epideictic, and/or persuasive? If more than one, what is its primary mode, and why? Which rhetorical proofs  does this speech use? To what extent are they effective?