Effective Communication At The University Of South Carolina

One of the most vital lessons that I have learned during my time at the University of South Carolina is the importance of effective communication. This lesson came through extensive trial and error from the knowledge I have gathered throughout the courses I have taken to the skills I have gathered during the process of my research. Effective communication involves the ability to alter your language to your particular audience, whether you are speaking to professionals in the particular topic to civilian who have little to no foundation in the field. Being able to speak both simply and thoroughly about your work and have everyone understand the main points and the importance of your work of what it is about is incredibly important. This involves

U201 taught me about the language that we use when speaking about other groups, while PSYC 487 helped to further understand how we use language when speaking to those other groups. In this course I learned about the elitism that is built into certain aspects of language, that keeps individuals in the lower classes from being able to easily access information. Academic research is often disseminated through papers and presentations that are written for a specific audience, with language that is simple for them to understand but which is inaccessible to those outside of higher education. The research that Community Psychology, as well as the research that I aim to conduct, aims to assist marginalized groups who have historically had lower rates of graduation from institutions of higher education. The research is aimed at them though, and for it to be effective they must understand it and why it is important to them. In the practice of Community Psychology, it is integral to include education within the formation of initiatives aimed at assisting communities. In order for an initiative to be successful you must include and educate the members of the community and you must avoid speaking in the same way that you would communicate with others in the academic field, couched in terminology, explaining methodology, but

During the summer of 2014 I took part in the McNair Research Program here at the University of South Carolina. During this program I conceptualized my own research project from start to finish, forming my research questions, gathering and analyzing secondary data, and ending the program with both an academic research paper and a presentation to take as I moved forward. This program singularly assisted my communication skills since we were assisted by various University professors in vastly different disciplines, including engineering, biology, history, and social work. During the course of weekly meetings with these professors and the 2014 cohort of students were held where we would talk about our research, go over our papers, and present our burgeoning presentations. The input of these varying academic professionals shaped my understanding of what an effective communicator should be. I learned how to analyze the language that I used and whether the terminology I was using was accessible to my audience. This program provided firsthand experience in learning how to alter my language to be open and accessible when presenting my research, no matter the