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Communication in the Workplace
Communication Analysis Essay and
Discussion Assignment
Reference: Chapters 1 - 6
Instructions:
SELECT a topic from the sample choices. Read and analyze.
Using your textbook for support!
FORMAT with the following WRITING GUIDELINES:
1. Typed 12 point font, Times New Roman
1. Double spaced, page length will vary (approximately 3 pages)
1. Stapled upper left-hand corner
1. Information used from our textbook or outside sources should
be noted in-text in APA or MLA format along with either a
Reference or Works Cited page.
HINTS:
1. If you use a direct quote, place quotation marks and in-text
cite.
1. If you summarize someone’s knowledge and use your own
words, and in-text cite it.
1. If you are in doubt, cite it!!!!!
1. Remember the 80/20 rule: 80% of your essay response
should always be your thoughts/words and 20% directly quoted.
BUT REMEMBER, JUST BECAUSE YOU PUT IT IN YOUR
OWN WORDS DOES NOT MEAN IT IS YOURS. YOU MUST
GIVE CREDIT FOR THE IDEA! Cite, cite, cite, cite, cite!
1. OWL PURDUE WRITING LAB is a wonderful resource and
reminder of these tips and more. Check it out!
1. Visit the ECU Writing Center for help with sources,
organization and error check. If you are unsure about using
sources correctly, seek help! Plagiarism is unacceptable.
ON DUE DATE:
1. Upload your Communication Essay to Safe Assign on
Blackboard link provided before you attend class on the due

date. Be prepared to discuss/present a brief 3-4 minute oral
summary of your essay utilizing your essay as a reference
before a small group of your classmates. You may bring your
essay or notes to help you with this discussion/presentation.
EVALUATION:
Your grade on this assignment will be based on your written and
discussion response. Each area is worth 25 points for a total of
100. Each of the 4 areas will be assessed as either Excellent,
Competent, Needs Improvement.
Area 1: Adherence to WRITING GUIDELINES
Area 2: Style: grammar/punctuation/readability
Area 3: Organization/ Supporting examples and terminology
utilized from the textbook for support
Area 4: Presentation individual summary-group discussion;
Active participant/listener- group discussion
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CHOICES! (In each choice, make sure that you search for a
RECENT article. This means within the past 6-12 months.)
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Email and text messages are not always the most appropriate
channel for a particular message. Think of a specific instance
in your life where you used IM or e-mail and the message sent
was not the message received.
· First, describe the kinds of problems caused by selecting this
channel of communication? Could these problems been
prevented by using a different channel for sending the message?
Make sure to use the transactional communication model and its
variables in illustrating/discussing the situation.

· You may also utilize other specific examples of co-workers or
fellow students to supplement your discussion. Interviewing
subjects can add a great deal of support.
· Explain the types of messages you think are not appropriate
for sending via e-mail or text message? Explain situations in
which you believe it would be beneficial to send the message
via e-mail or text message? Explain your response with
examples.
· Finally, locate a current article about sending and receiving
email/text messages. Summarize the article and attach the
original copy of the article to your essay.
Managing cultural differences in the workplace can be
challenging. Your task is to explore the difficulty of managing
cultural differences in the workplace by reading an article on
this topic. If you have difficulty locating an article, contact an
ECU librarian for assistance. After reading your selected
article, answer the following questions:
· Give a brief overview of the article you read. Make sure to
highlight any new beneficial principles/terminology used by this
author or reference information from our textbook.
· What advice did you gain from this article? If not, why?
· Describe a current workplace or classroom situation in which
you have witnessed cultural differences as challenged. In your
opinion, how could this situation be modified?
· Attach a copy of the article you utilized to the final copy of
your essay.
Violence in the workplace has a lot to do with a negative

communication climate and poorly managed conflicts. Conflict
management and a positive relationship climate can benefit both
the employee and client.
· Locate a current article on conflict management. Summarize
the article and your viewpoint of the article.
· Next, describe experiences you have had or witnessed in a
current negative working climate (this could be a workplace or
even school) that deals poorly with conflicts. You can change
the names to protect the innocent. Make sure to include
examples of situations for support. Make sure to utilize our
article/textbook terminology to supplement your discussion.
· Second, explain how this negative working climate could be
improved. Locate three websites that could be utilized by the
organization for help in dealing with conflict management.
Briefly explain what each site offers.
Explore the working-world of adults with Autism, Asperger
Syndrome, and ADHD.
· First, explain each of these particular disorders. Locate one
article discussing either Autism, Asperger Syndrome, or ADHD
in the workplace. Summarize this article and your viewpoint.
· Discuss: What challenges do employees and supervisors face
in accommodating and providing positive work climates for

these workers? What are the benefits of employing and working
with Autistic, Asperger, or ADHD co-workers?
· Describe any personal experiences you have had or someone
you know. How has researching this particular subject changed
your current/ past viewpoint and/or judgment of these
employees?
Locate a recent article exploring the impact of language and
social media creating negative effects on companies or
individual employees. OR locate a recent article exploring the
impact of an individual’s behavior destroying a company’s
image on social media.
· First, summarize the article and explain the situation(s).
Include your viewpoint as well.
· Discussion options: What responsibility do employers have to
ensure that their employees create a positive impact on their
organization’s public profile? What policies should be adopted
regarding employee social media use and behavior? What rights
should employees have? Should there be a universal business
policy regarding all employee behavior on social media and
publicly throughout the United States? Feel free to pose and
offer other observations or questions for discussion.

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CLT3378-02: Ancient Mythology: East and West
Fall 2019
Essay Draft
(due Thursday, October 10)
A. General Information
1) The Essay Draft is the first, graded draft of an essay that you
will later revise and submit as
the Revised Essay (which is due on Thursday, November 14).
2) You will revise the Essay Draft and submit it as the Revised
Essay based on the comments
made by your instructor on your graded Essay Draft.
3) The Essay Draft must be at least 1500 words long. It must
not be shorter than 1500 words,
and it should not be more than 2000 words.
4) Please include the following information at the top of the
first page of your assignment:

Essay Draft name
CLT3378-02, Fall 2019 word count
5) The Essay Draft should be submitted in two formats:
a. as a paper copy in class on Thursday, October 10.
b. as a digital copy to the Turnitin link for Essay Draft under
Assignments by 11:59 pm
on Thursday, October 10.
6) Both the paper copy and the digital copy should be Microsoft
WORD documents, double
spaced, in 12 point font, and with 1 inch margins on the right
and left of the text.
7) In order for your Essay Draft to be graded, students must
submit both the paper and digital
copies.
8) For the Essay Draft, you will compare (and/or contrast; i.e.,
you can look just at similarities
or differences or at both) a modern work with an ancient work
(from List A below).

9) Select one modern work (a movie, a TV show, a book, a
poem, a song, etc.) that can be
compared with an ancient work (from List A).
10) Compare and/or contrast this work with one of the following
ancient works (in List A) that
we have read and/or discussed this semester. You must use one
of the works in List A:
LIST A (Acceptable Works)
The Enuma Elish The Anansi myths The Tale of Tulisa
The Baal Cycle The Raven myths The Epic of Gilgamesh
Atrahasis The Coyote myth The Tale of Buluqiya
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You may NOT use any of the following works:
LIST B (Unacceptable Works)
Genesis or any other part of the Bible
Hesiod’s Theogony

Apollodorus’ Library
Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey
Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche
Beowulf
English, German, or Hungarian folktales (Rose Tree; Juniper
Tree; Singing, Soaring
Lark; Crow’s Nest)
The Prose Edda and Norse myths
B. Writing Guidelines
1) You must come up with your own thesis statement for the
Essay Draft. A thesis statement is
an argument. The simplest thesis statements would be
something like, “There are many
differences between A and B” or “While there are some
differences between A and B, there are
also some striking similarities.” More specific thesis
statements, however, are more interesting
and generally help you write better essays.
2) This is an essay, not a research paper. You should not do any
outside research (especially on

the internet; see next entry). All you need for the essay are the
one modern work you have
chosen and the one ancient work we have read in class.
3) Important: Beware of information you find on the web! It is
often wrong, and it will be
obvious to your grader that you got your information from the
web and not from the assigned
myths and readings. If you depend on the web for the
information in your essays, your grade will
suffer.
4) Read very carefully the List of Errors for Essays file. These
are the errors that will be
noted for you when your instructor returns to you your graded
essay. The more of these errors
you can avoid, the higher the grade on your Essay Draft will
likely be.
C. Common Grading Rubric
1) Be sure to read carefully the Common Grading Rubric file.
This is the rubric upon which
essay grading is ultimately based for all sections of CLT3378

(Ancient Mythology), regardless of
section, semester, or instructor. (The List of Errors builds upon
this grading rubric.)
2) Pay especially close attention to what the requirements are
for the “A/A-” paper:
“Mechanics: Sentence structure, grammar, and diction
excellent; correct use of punctuation
and citation style; minimal to no spelling errors; absolutely no
run-on sentences or comma
splices.”
This means that if there are more than a very few spelling or
grammatical errors in your essay, you
CANNOT receive an A or A-.
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3) Therefore, in order to give yourself at least the chance to
receive the best possible grade on your
essay, make sure your essay has as few spelling or grammatical
errors as possible! For your
essay, be sure to use “spell check” on your computer. But also
read your essay aloud several times
and try to catch any remaining spelling or grammatical errors.

Be sure also to read the How to
Avoid the Most Common Grammatical Errors file.
D. Structure of Essay Draft
1) Your Essay Draft should consist of:
1. an introductory paragraph (with your thesis
statement)
2. at least three supporting paragraphs (each with a subthesis
statement)
3. a concluding paragraph
2) Each paragraph of your essay must have at least five (5)
sentences (although you will usually
want to have more than five sentences in a paragraph).
3) Your thesis statement must appear in the opening paragraph
of your essay. The following
paragraphs must support this thesis or argument.
4) Each supporting paragraph must have a unique thesis
statement of its own that should serve

as a subthesis to the main thesis of the paper. Each subthesis
must help support the main thesis
of your essay. A subthesis must be the first one or two
sentences of a given supporting
paragraph.
5) In each supporting paragraph of your essay, you must discuss
both works that you have
chosen, both the modern and the ancient works.
6) The best subtheses focus on a single similarity or a single
difference. For example, a
subthesis could be: “One similarity between the stories of
Buluqiya and of Frodo is that in both
stories there is a magic ring.” Or for a difference, the subthesis
could be: “While Buluqiya wants
to find the magic ring so that he can have it for himself, Frodo
wants to destroy the magic ring he
already has.”
7) You must indicate exactly what kind of work your modern
western work is. That is to say, if
you have chosen Beauty and the Beast, you must tell the reader
(usually in the introductory

paragraph) that this is the Disney movie (whether the 1991 one
or the 2017 one) or that this is
some other telling of the story (such as the folktale upon which
the movies are based). The reader
should not have to guess what kind of work you are discussing.
8) If you are using a series (e.g., book, movie, or TV), you must
indicate which
book/movie/episode you are discussing in your essay. This
means you do need the titles of
individual episodes of a TV show (such as South Park).
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9) Each subthesis must refer in some way to both works that you
have chosen, both the modern
and the ancient works.
10) DO NOT DIVIDE SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS IN TWO!
For the purposes of this
assignment, it does not matter how long supporting paragraphs
are (although if a supporting

paragraph is much over a page in length, then your subthesis is
likely too general). Make sure
you discuss BOTH works in each supporting paragraph, and
make sure you have at least one
quotation from BOTH works in each supporting paragraph. If
you divide supporting paragraphs
in two (i.e., if you discuss the Epic of Gilgamesh in one
paragraph and the Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban book in another), you WILL lose points on
your Essay Draft.
11) In each supporting paragraph of your essay, you must give
at least ONE QUOTATION
from the modern work and at least ONE QUOTATION from the
ancient work you have
chosen. You must demonstrate to the reader that you have
watched/listened to/read and carefully
thought about the works in question. This means that even if
your modern, western work is a
movie, for example, you will still need to directly quote
dialogue, song, or spoken narration
from that movie. (The only exception to this is if your modern
work has little to no dialogue,
such as a graphic novel that is mainly images or a mostly or

totally silent movie. In these rare
cases, you would need to describe the [silent] scene you are
discussing in detail to the reader
instead of providing a quotation for that particular scene.)
12) See the Guide to Quotations file for more information about
how to give quotations in your
essay.
13) Thus, a formula for writing a supporting paragraph is:
a) subthesis mentioning both works and focusing on a single
similarity or difference
b) sentence introducing first quotation
c) first quotation (from a Raven myth, for example)
d) sentence explaining why first quotation is significant for
subthesis
e) sentence introducing second quotation
f) second quotation (from a South Park episode, for example)
g) sentence explaining why second quotation is significant for
subthesis
14) For further examples, read the Sample Paragraphs for
Essays file.

15) The concluding paragraph should NOT just be a summary of
your essay as whole. It should
contain thoughts that you have not yet made in your essay. It
should build upon what you have
already said, but it should contain something new.
16) One way to go about writing your concluding paragraph is
to talk about what the
myths/works in your essay tell us about the one modern and the
one ancient culture that you are
discussing.
17) You do NOT need a works cited page or bibliography, and
you do NOT need footnotes.
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E. Suggestions for Essay Draft Topics
For your one modern work, choose a modern narrative (book,
movie, TV show, etc.) that you

really like and would enjoy writing about. The modern work
that you pick does not have to have
mythic themes. It just has to have some similarities to an
ancient myth. Some examples of
possible topics:
1) A narrative featuring a friendship between two main
characters (like I Love You, Man; Star
Trek Into Darkness; Sherlock) compared to Gilgamesh and
Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh or
Buluqiya and Affan in the Tale of Buluqiya.
2) An epic fantasy or science fiction narrative (like The Hobbit,
The Avengers, Lord of the Rings,
Harry Potter) compared to the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Tale of
Buluqiya, or the Baal Cycle.
Note on #2: You can use the entire series of Lord of the Rings,
of Harry Potter, or of the Rocky
movies, for example. But you can’t mix and match books and
movies; you can talk about the
Lord of the Rings books or movies, but not both. You also must
be specific about which book or
movie you are talking about at any point in your essay. You

must say “As it says in the Two
Towers . . .” or “Aragorn says in the Return of the King . . .”.)
3) A trickster figure (Bart Simpson, Cartman, Voldemort)
compared to Anansi, Raven, or
Coyote.
Note on #3: Again (see VIII. above), if you are using a TV
series, you need to give the titles of
the individual episodes you are discussing.
4) A powerful and possibly evil female character (Grendel’s
mother from the movie [NOT the
book] Beowulf or Ursula from the Disney movie The Little
Mermaid) compared to Tiamat.
5) The Tale of Tulisa compared to the Disney movie Beauty and
the Beast.
Note on #5: If you do compare the Tale of Tulisa with Beauty
and the Beast, do NOT just look at
similarities. These two stories are essentially the same story (or
folktale tale type): the Tale of
Tulisa is an example of ATU 425: The Search for the Lost
Husband, while Beauty and the Beast

is in a subcategory of the former, ATU 425C: Beauty and the
Beast. Therefore, you will want to
focus on differences, not similarities, between the Tale of
Tulisa and Beauty and the Beast.

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