Sam Benson

COMM 1010
Professor Skousen
Spring Semester

Skills Journal
This journal is about my ways of communication through Perception and self, Verbal, and Non-
verbal communication, listening and interpersonal communication. You will be reading from
what I have learned and been taught to communicate.
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Perception and self
In this assignment I explain what impacted my perception on others. I explain that growing up, I
was told/taught in school to stay to myself and stay out of people business, because unless it
involves you it’s not your business. I feel that this is a society thing and I agree with it, it’s
extremely rude to butt into other people’s business.

I also talk about how respect is earned and not given, and if you demand something from
someone, they’re not going to give you any respect. An example is how we’re taught to
automatically respect entitled people. If you are wealthy and get a job to earn their own money
and be dependent, I will respect you, but if you are entitled and expect everything be given to
you, I will be mean and give no respect.

Verbal Communication
When talking about verbal communication, I explain how Media in general has made society
meaner and more towards favoring one party by allowing them to comment/say rude things and
have no consequences, but when it comes to other parties that speak facts or nice things they
get banned.

Another form of verbal communication is texting, when it comes to texting people can express
themselves more using emoji, and if the other person that their texting doesn’t get back them
they get annoyed.

Non-verbal Communication
non -verbal communication is used by body language, which is used in our everyday lives.
Some examples are waving as a form of saying ‘hi’ or being nice and shaking hands which is a
form of good impression of yourself.

ASL not only is a language but also a form of non-verbal communication. It’s a language for
deaf people to speak by using their hands to make symbols.
Listening
Based on the listening reflection, I try to be an effective listener, but get distracted and bored
very easily. I have a hard time staying concentrated due to having ADHD. Medicine will help a
bit but won’t fully help keep me focused.

I will try to find ways to make me an effective listener, but I won’t guarantee I will ever be an
effective listener.

Interpersonal Communication
The theory I talk about in this assignment is messaging through two people and trying to get
better on working to communicate better through message. I find myself not responding back to
people when I don’t know what to say in the conversation, so I usually don’t respond, or I’ll text
something random.
I will try my hardest to respond back when I don’t know what to say.

Final Summary
My biggest takeaways about my communication abilities are, that based on society teaching me

to keep to myself and not having the confidence to being able to talk to people

comfortably and confidently. What surprised me is I have some form of good

communication, based on going to job interviews or emails from English 1010.

I have learned a lot on communication skills, and how to make yourself seem professional for

other to give a good impression, even though I might not socialize I plan to see a little

professional or better when talking to someone else.