Posted: September 13th, 2017
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Classmate Interview
When you read the synopsis of a story on the back cover of a book, how much can you accurately predict about the entire book? The book cover is meant to give a few important or interesting details about the whole to make the reader want to know more. In the same way, an introduction to a new person or the brief post you made to the Class Café is like the synopsis on your own personal book cover. It gave a snapshot of what you wanted others to perceive about you in a few interesting or important facts. This Application gives you the opportunity to test your perceptions of your classmates by learning more about them in a brief interview. Afterward, you will analyze how much of your initial judgments were accurate and what changes you may make in your perception once you have engaged more with someone else’s “self.” If the saying is correct, then you will find you “cannot judge a book by its cover.”
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To prepare for this Application:
Read Chapter 3 in Understanding Interpersonal Communication: Making Choices in Changing Times. How do your culture and identity influence how you want others to perceive you?
Read Chapters 11, 14, and 16 in Composing Relationships: Communication in Everyday Life. How do the people involved in each scenario communicate aspects of their identity to others?
Review the introductory posts made by your classmates in the Class Café. What was your initial perception of each classmate based on the posts in the Class Café? Has that perception changed? Why or why not?
Reflect on communicating information to others in an online environment. How does the online environment affect your communication style and content? What differences in your willingness to share information do you notice when you share this information online?
In the Class Café, choose one classmate about whom you would like to get to know more and respond to his or her introductory post requesting an interview by Day 2. In this assignment, the person you choose will also interview you so that all students interview two classmates: one that you choose and one that chooses you. Send a private e-mail to exchange contact information and decide the format in which you both will answer questions. If you see that someone has already been asked to be interviewed, you must choose a different classmate who has not been requested yet.
Review the Classmate Interview Questions document located in the Learning Resources for five beginning questions to ask your classmates. Then devise five more questions to ask so that you ask ten questions in total. You will ask your classmates the same ten questions.
The assignment:
Compose a 2 page paper in which you evaluate the interview you had with each classmate and your resulting perceptions about each person. Include answers to the following:
Which format did you choose to communicate with your classmates? Why did you select that one?
What kinds of personal information did you choose to communicate with your classmates and how was it similar to or different from the kinds of personal information that they chose to disclose?
How did the format affect your perception of your classmates?
Did your initial perception of the classmates that you interviewed change after you communicated with them in a one-to-one manner? Why or why not?
What did you learn about the way you communicate with others? Did your communication style affect the people you were interviewing? Why or why not?
Do you believe the information you gained from each interviewee would have been different if you had been physically sitting across from one another? Why or why not?
Include your ten interview questions at the end of your paper.
Cite references to concepts in your texts to support each of your responses.
Interview Questions
The five interview questions below are required for your classmate interview. You are expected to create
five additional questions to ask your classmate.
Very Passionate, loving and strong woman who would do anything for her family.
My children definitely motivate me most to put forth my greatest effort-Every day I use my
children as motivation by having a picture of them not only in my car on my dashboard in my car
but on my office desk, so I always have them to look at no matter how hard things get I know why
I am doing and working so hard, and to never give up.
customer, supervisor, etc.). How did you handle the situation? Is there anything you would have
done differently in hindsight?
I had to work with a difficult co-worker one time on a loan, we just bumped heads with everything
how she spoke to me, emailed me- it got to the point no matter what she would do would make
me frustrated. I had to really learn to just not take what she said and how she spoke to me to
heart, so anytime I would see her name appear, I had to take a deep breath and try to be the
bigger person. It was hard at first to do, but once I took a step back and continuously was getting
so upset and stressed over her, I realized it wasn’t worth it, and at the end of the day I didn’t work
for her, I just worked with her- and took control of the situation.
Being a mother is definitely the biggest accomplishment I’ve ever done-just to raise children and
realize the true importance of life.
Being able to raise my children by myself is one of the top ones as well. I didn’t really have much
of a choice in this matter, yet it is one of the most challenging things I had to do, and yet also the
most rewarding. Being a parent is hard work, but being mom and dad is definitely extra hard
work. I appreciate the strength I have accomplished from being a single mother because I have
learned there isn’t much I CAN’T do.
I selected Walden University, because I work two jobs and have two children to raise, so it is one
of the only options I had to finish school without missing out on my other priorities
I honestly don’t have a good reason why I chose my major Communication/ Public Relations. I
originally was at Florida State for Fashion Merchandising, prior to children, and throughout the
past 9 years I’ve been a mother, I just wanted to get back into school and make sure to finish. I
communicate regularly with people in my career today, so I felt it would help to benefit me to
focus in this area. 7. What do you want to happen once you have received you degree?
I would love to be in better career opportunity, and make more money- I believe everyone would.
More than anything I just truly want to finish because I feel it is important to stress to my children,
that no matter how hard things are and can be in life, you never give up on something you
started.
Were there any persons that pushed you to your dreams?
My mother actually stopped me from making my dreams come true. Not even intentionally I don’t
think, but I was never the smartest at school and I felt that any dreams or goals I had, she would
steer me away from, because she didn’t feel I was “smart” enough to succeed in that direction,
and would suggest something else. My brother helps to push me to make my dreams come true.
He is such an amazing individual, who is so positive and uplifting. He helps me to stay focused
and realize that I am able to make anything happen if I truly want to make it happen.
In 10 years from now, I see myself married with more children- happy, being a great mother, wife,
and sister. I hope to be in a career where I have more flexibility that I am able to not have to miss
out on events that are important to myself and my family. But most importantly again to reiterate,
I want to be happy.
The biggest regret I have in my life would have to be staying in situations longer than I should. I
often tend to stay in certain situations a little longer than I know I should, which ends up causing a
domino effect of negative things to happen. Other than that I am not much of a big person on
regret, because I feel that everything in life happens to mold you into who you are today.
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