W5 - First Grade Posting - Classroom Quiz

SELF DIRECTED - STUDY GUIDE


Note: Classroom quiz is to be completed to earn a passing grade for the first grade posting of the semester (9/19/09)

Directive:

• Students must comment to this post after reviewing content. Grade will not be earned without this step being completed. Comment post must read, 'I have reviewed this post prior to taking the classroom quiz."
  
• Professor reserves the right to hold the quiz either Weds or Friday (or both days) of the 5th week. If an excused absence is not agreed to prior to Monday of the fifth week, the student will receive a falling quiz grade.
  
• Bring sheets of lined paper to class for exam answers.
  
• This is a closed text/blog/google search/journal quiz.
  
• Students should have reviewed all of the learning tools identified in week 4 classroom.
  
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  Sample types of questions:

1. What is non verbal communication?
2. What is informal business communication?
3. What is formal business communication?
4. What is the course objective?
5. What is culture? What is the difference between the terms, co-culture and sub-culture?
6. Describe the business term diversity and its application.
7. What national business association was showcased during week one ice breaker? What is the associations purpose?
8. What service does salary.com provide?
9. What key message of the article "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" : posted to my twitter account?
10. What is the difference in strategy between business communication and academic communication?
11. List five different online communication services that are used in business. How are they applied?
12. Describe a model of two person communication with feedback.
13. Describe the benefits and method of knowing your audience(s).
14. Describe the proof -reading terms - planning/writing/revising.
15. Provide directive of how to design presentation slides.
16. What planning should be performed before writing or speaking?
17. What is the key message in the blog Mini Lecture, "The Old Way of Job Searching is Broken" ?
18. Provide two questions with their answer covering a course topic from any of the class learning tools: blog, class notes, text, homework, online research, twitter, directly related to the course topic that I have not asked.

Note: Detailed questions requested. Sampling does not mean that all these questions will be on the quiz or that the question(s) will be 100% written as it is on this post.

Week Five Preview as it relates to quiz:

1. Monday - Classroom study lab. Instructor reviews journals
2. Wednesday - Quiz???? Instructor reviews journals
3. Friday - Quiz???? Instructor reviews journals

Note: Quiz will be performed during normal classroom period, 11:05 -11:45 am. Quiz is submitted on the instructors desk at the end of the course - no leaving prior to the 11:45 am.