2.8 Activities For Further Reflection
Activities and Exercises
Your instructor may ask you to complete one or more of the following activities:
- Write a paragraph connecting Brenda Knights’ narrative to the rest of the chapter or to your own experience.
- Find a vintage ad online. Draw a diagram of the Context of Production that you think the message was created in and Context of Use that you’re viewing it in. Do you find the ad persuasive? Why or why not? Do you think the overlap between the Context of Use and Context of Production circles has changed since the ad was created? Why?
- Think about a miscommunication that you experienced or that you found online. Diagram the miscommunication according to the Context of Production/ Context of Use model. Label the stages (encoding, circulation, use and reproduction). Then, write a short paragraph about what stage(s) of the communication process caused the miscommunication to occur.
- Look at the prompt for an upcoming assignment. Analyze it according to the CMAPP model. What do you know about the assignment’s context, message, audience, purpose and product? How can this knowledge help you be successful in your assignment?
Attribution
“Key Takeaways” from Business Writing For Everyone by Arley Cruthers is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
