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I wanted to use these two advertisements because it shows you a main strategy in advertizing, sex! Sex is a huge thing in all advisements. If you look at the first one for a weight loss drug, you see a half naked girl on it. In the next one all it is beer bottles but it is in the shape of a but and a man’s private part! They use personal Experience to help sell these products. You look at these ads and all you think about is sex and when most people think about sex it is a happy memory and from now on when you use those products you will feel good. They want you to trust your feelings and experiences and choose their products. They do a great job to try and distract you from what the product really is about and really does. I believe that advertizing has gotten a little out of control!

Decision making in groups!

As we start our group Projects in this class I think it would be important to talk about the process of decision making in groups! According to the book the essential Guide to Group Communication, there are 8 steps!

Step one: Identify the problem

This is the first step because all members need to be in sync with what the problem is that they are trying to solve.

Step two: Conduct research

Research is required to understand more about the problem at hand and to help the problem solving process move along

Step three: Establish Guidelines and Criteria

This is important to understand what the group needs to get done concerning the problem. Guidelines are a must because they keep the group on task.

Step Four: Generate Alternatives

This is important to do because it will allow the group to see every possible solution. This is really a Hugh brainstorming session.

Step Five: Evaluate the Alternatives

This is important because this is the step where you compare each solution to the guidelines and criteria. You look at each one and decide what works and what does not.

Step Six: Select the Best Alternatives

This is where the group chooses the best solution for the problems! This is the final round of the solution process

Step Seven: Implement the Solution

This is where you put the solution that your group has chosen in to action, and work out the problem.

Step Eight: Evaluate the Results

This is the final step and it is where you go back and look at what you did. You can see what worked and what did not so can use that knowledge next time you have a problem!

Fallacy's: a Slippery Slope!

The Fallacy that I have chosen is Slippery Slope!

The book explains this fallacy as reasoning in a chain with conditionals where at least one of them is false. His is a good explanation but I would like to break it down a bit and explain it to you all better. This fallacy starts with a small action or statement that automatically leads to a bigger ending ignoring a middle ground that could change the out come. One real life example that I have heard in the past would be that if you grow a vegetable garden you will be able to live of your vegetables and never need to by them again. This is a fallacy because it leaves out the middle ground it does not say anything about you having to grow large quantities of vegetable and that you would need to grow them all year round. It also doe not count that fact that you may not be able to grow them and then they die you would be forced to go to the store and bye them. Slippery slope is really easy to get in to and people need to be carefull.

6 characteristics of communication

something that i really wanted to talk about was the 6 characteristics of communication
1. communication is symbolic
this means that the stronger the connection with a symbol the better the shared meaning
2. communication is a shared code
this means that every member of a group must share the same way of encoding and decoding a message.
3. Communication is linked to culture.
this means that the things and word mean different things in different cultures.
4. communication is intentional
this means that everything is communicated on poupous weather it be by words or body language.
5. communication is mediated.
this means that commuication is carried though a 3ed party, like internet, phone, text.
6. communication is transactional.
this mean that the messages sent are dependent on the other person sending one back!

Subjective and Objective Claims

Claims? What are the differences in subjective and objective claims?

Subjective claim: a subjective claim is a claim that is not made up of facts. It is a claim made by someone that is composed of an expression of an expression, opinion, or a belief. This type of claim can not be proved right or wrong.

Example of a subjective claim I have heard lately: “Freshman orientation is going to be the best it’s ever been”! In this situation I was talking to a orientation leader about how orientation was going this year and she stated the above claim. This is an example of a subjective claim because it was based of her opinion.

Objective claim: a objective claim is a claim that is made up of factual information. Factual information is made up of widely recognized information. This type of claim can be proved right or wrong based on the correctness of the factual information.

Example of an objective claim I have heard lately: “my computer wont turn on” In this situation I was talking to a coworker who was having problems with her computer and it would not turn on. This is an example of an objective claim because it is a known fact that her computer will not turn on and it can be proved right.

Differences between valid and strong arguments!

The differences between valid and strong arguments and small but very important. It is imperative that one know the differences between the two and how to use the correctly.

Valid Arguments: a valid argument is an argument in which all premises are known to be true. This means that the conclusion can never be false since the premises are true.

An example of a valid argument would be Marilyn can die from eating eggs, this is true because Marilyn is deathly allergic to eggs, and being deathly allergic to something and eating it will kill you.

Strong Arguments: a strong argument is one that may be invalid argument that most likely has a true conclusion. This means that the conclusion may be true but the premises might be false or made up just to sound true.

And example if a strong argument would be that Linda like chocolate, because Linda is a women and women like chocolate. Just because Linda is a women does not mean that she like chocolate.

Hello!

Hi Comm 41 I’m Marilyn AKA Violet Beauregarde I am going in to my fourth year here at San Jose State. I am a Hospitality, Tourism, and Event Management Major with a minor in Sociology. I am originally from the central coast but I have been in san José the last three years! I love san Jose state (go Spartans!!). I live on campus and am the Vice President of Programming for the Residence Hall Association! That pretty much means I put on all the large scale programs for housing! My formal communication experience is minimal I have taken comm. 20! But I love to talk! My hopes for this class to be able better communicate my thoughts and opinions though pen and paper (or in the case the key board). I have never taken a online class before so this is something new for me! My intrest are many and varied so if you have something new that I might like to try hit me up!