SMC Interpersonal Goals Which May Not Be Met in Worst Choice Group Discussion
Description
There are many interpretations for selecting the best approach in a situation, so let’s discover how each of you may see a situation similarly or differently. Keep in mind, each situation is unique as is each of you.
What specific goals would you expect to meet (or not) in the best and worst approach for the situations you have selected? Identify these goals and include your rationale for each goal in the paragraph required, as described (Best and Worst).
- Submit your initial post on or before the due date posted.
- Submit two threaded peer posts between Thursday – Sunday.
Review rubric carefully before submitting your work.
OUTLINE OF ELEMENTS REQUIRED IN EACH VIGNETTE
(complete each vignette separately and post in one submission)
- Identify Vignette Chosen (copy into text box in bold)
- Rank each of the 5 approaches and paste them in hierarchical order from #1 Best to #5 Worst choice.
- Explain the best choice (#1) in comparison to other 4 approaches. 1 paragraph.
- Identify interpersonal goals met by best choice (1 or more)
- Explain worst choice (#5) in comparison to other 4 approaches. 1 paragraph.
- Identify interpersonal goals which may not be met in worst choice.
STEP 1
Choose 2 situations: when communicating with a romantic partner
Copy the selected situation into the text box in bold, so that it is clear what situation you have selected. Copy this format twice into the forum – you’ll need to do this for each of the situations chosen:
a. You need to apologize for a fight that you started the last time you were together.
b. You want to confront your partner about something he or she has done.
c. You want to express gratitude to your partner.
d. You want to make “date” plans for the evening.
e. You want to end a six-month-old romantic relationship.
STEP 2
Rank best approach: rank from best (#1) to worst (#5) approach
Copy and paste the approaches below (in bold) in place them in order from best as #1 to worst #5 . Be sure to number them and place them in order from 1-5.
___ Have a face-to-face conversation
___ Talk by telephone
___ Leave a voice-mail message
___ Send an e-mail, text message (digital)
___ Write a note or card
STEP 3
Carefully and thoughtfully prepare your post. You are posting a complex applied learning task into a group discussion.
Publish your analysis of both situations into one post. Number them 1 and 2. Copy the situations selected into your post in bold, so that it is clear what situation you selected. Rank all five approaches from highest #1 (best) to lowest #5 (worst)– you can copy and paste them in order to the discussion. Explain your best choice in one simple paragraph and your worst choice in another simple paragraph, identifying at least one or more specific goals met or not.
SMC Interpersonal Goals Which May Not Be Met in Worst Choice Group Discussion
In-Text Citations: The Basics
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
Reference citations in text are covered on pages 261-268 of the Publication Manual. What follows are some general guidelines for referring to the works of others in your essay.
Note: On pages 117-118, the Publication Manual suggests that authors of research papers should use the past tense or present perfect tense for signal phrases that occur in the literature review and procedure descriptions (for example, Jones (1998) found or Jones (1998) has found…). Contexts other than traditionally-structured research writing may permit the simple present tense (for example, Jones (1998) finds).
APA Citation Basics
When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, like, for example, (Jones, 1998). One complete reference for each source should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.
If you are referring to an idea from another work but NOT directly quoting the material, or making reference to an entire book, article or other work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication and not the page number in your in-text reference.
On the other hand, if you are directly quoting or borrowing from another work, you should include the page number at the end of the parenthetical citation. Use the abbreviation “p.” (for one page) or “pp.” (for multiple pages) before listing the page number(s). Use an en dash for page ranges. For example, you might write (Jones, 1998, p. 199) or (Jones, 1998, pp. 199–201). This information is reiterated below.
Regardless of how they are referenced, all sources that are cited in the text must appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.
In-text citation capitalization, quotes, and italics/underlining
* Always capitalize proper nouns, including author names and initials: D. Jones.
* If you refer to the title of a source within your paper, capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source: Permanence and Change. Exceptions apply to short words that are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs: Writing New Media, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.
(Note: in your References list, only the first word of a title will be capitalized: Writing new media.)
* When capitalizing titles, capitalize both words in a hyphenated compound word: Natural-Born Cyborgs.
* Capitalize the first word after a dash or colon: “Defining Film Rhetoric: The Case of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.”
* If the title of the work is italicized in your reference list, italicize it and use title case capitalization in the text: The Closing of the American Mind; The Wizard of Oz; Friends.
* If the title of the work is not italicized in your reference list, use double quotation marks and title case capitalization (even though the reference list uses sentence case): “Multimedia Narration: Constructing Possible Worlds;” “The One Where Chandler Can’t Cry.”
SHORT QUOTATIONS
If you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author, year of publication, and page number for the reference (preceded by “p.” for a single page and “pp.” for a span of multiple pages, with the page numbers separated by an en dash).
You can introduce the quotation with a signal phrase that includes the author’s last name followed by the date of publication in parentheses.
According to Jones (1998), “students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time” (p. 199).
Jones (1998) found “students often had difficulty using APA style” (p. 199); what implications does this have for teachers?
If you do not include the author’s name in the text of the sentence, place the author’s last name, the year of publication, and the page number in parentheses after the quotation.
She stated, “Students often had difficulty using APA style” (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.
LONG QUOTATIONS
Place direct quotations that are 40 words or longer in a free-standing block of typewritten lines and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, indented 1/2 inch from the left margin, i.e., in the same place you would begin a new paragraph. Type the entire quotation on the new margin, and indent the first line of any subsequent paragraph within the quotation 1/2 inch from the new margin. Maintain double-spacing throughout, but do not add an extra blank line before or after it. The parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.
Because block quotation formatting is difficult for us to replicate in the OWL’s content management system, we have simply provided a screenshot of a generic example below.
Formatting example for block quotations in APA 7 style.
QUOTATIONS FROM SOURCES WITHOUT PAGES
Direct quotations from sources that do not contain pages should not reference a page number. Instead, you may reference another logical identifying element: a paragraph, a chapter number, a section number, a table number, or something else. Older works (like religious texts) can also incorporate special location identifiers like verse numbers. In short: pick a substitute for page numbers that makes sense for your source.
Jones (1998) found a variety of causes for student dissatisfaction with prevailing citation practices (paras. 4–5).
A meta-analysis of available literature (Jones, 1998) revealed inconsistency across large-scale studies of student learning (Table 3).
SUMMARY OR PARAPHRASE
If you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text reference and may omit the page numbers. APA guidelines, however, do encourage including a page range for a summary or paraphrase when it will help the reader find the information in a longer work.
According to Jones (1998), APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners.
APA style is a difficult citation format for first-time learners (Jones, 1998, p. 199).
Description
There are many interpretations for selecting the best approach in a situation, so let’s discover how each of you may see a situation similarly or differently. Keep in mind, each situation is unique as is each of you.
What specific goals would you expect to meet (or not) in the best and worst approach for the situations you have selected? Identify these goals and include your rationale for each goal in the paragraph required, as described (Best and Worst).
- Submit your initial post on or before the due date posted.
- Submit two threaded peer posts between Thursday – Sunday.
Review rubric carefully before submitting your work.
OUTLINE OF ELEMENTS REQUIRED IN EACH VIGNETTE
(complete each vignette separately and post in one submission)
- Identify Vignette Chosen (copy into text box in bold)
- Rank each of the 5 approaches and paste them in hierarchical order from #1 Best to #5 Worst choice.
- Explain the best choice (#1) in comparison to other 4 approaches. 1 paragraph.
- Identify interpersonal goals met by best choice (1 or more)
- Explain worst choice (#5) in comparison to other 4 approaches. 1 paragraph.
- Identify interpersonal goals which may not be met in worst choice.
STEP 1
Choose 2 situations: when communicating with a romantic partner
Copy the selected situation into the text box in bold, so that it is clear what situation you have selected. Copy this format twice into the forum – you’ll need to do this for each of the situations chosen:
a. You need to apologize for a fight that you started the last time you were together.
b. You want to confront your partner about something he or she has done.
c. You want to express gratitude to your partner.
d. You want to make “date” plans for the evening.
e. You want to end a six-month-old romantic relationship.
STEP 2
Rank best approach: rank from best (#1) to worst (#5) approach
Copy and paste the approaches below (in bold) in place them in order from best as #1 to worst #5 . Be sure to number them and place them in order from 1-5.
___ Have a face-to-face conversation
___ Talk by telephone
___ Leave a voice-mail message
___ Send an e-mail, text message (digital)
___ Write a note or card
STEP 3
Carefully and thoughtfully prepare your post. You are posting a complex applied learning task into a group discussion.
Publish your analysis of both situations into one post. Number them 1 and 2. Copy the situations selected into your post in bold, so that it is clear what situation you selected. Rank all five approaches from highest #1 (best) to lowest #5 (worst)– you can copy and paste them in order to the discussion. Explain your best choice in one simple paragraph and your worst choice in another simple paragraph, identifying at least one or more specific goals met or not.