total comm: Written communication/multimodal and digital literacy

What are the two dimensions of message types

Personal versus impersonal

what is good etiquette for a group texts

-Don't start a group text late at night

-Only include people who know each other

-Keep the conversation on the subject

-Announce when you're leaving the group text

-Add value to the conversation, don't just add to the noise

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what are guidelines for participating in discussion boards?

-Read directions carefully make sure you understand the prompt

-Read other students responses before commenting

-Research your subject

-white in a way that encourages further discussion

-Re read your response to make sure you answered the questions

-engage with other students

Traditionists

hard working

Baby boomers

Strong work ethic and company loyalty

Gen Xers

Resourceful, innovative, and driven

Gen Ys

teamwork-oriented

Gen Zs

Highly concerned about financial security

what percentage of people are visual learners?

65%

how many times should you repeat the key points of your presentation?

3

Business memo

document often created with a crowd with a word processor + printed for distribution

Format

Similar to email (begins with header listening recipients)

Skips the greetings and immediately goes into body text

Put main point of paragraph first (use bulletpoints)

Don't include farewells

Revise

What percentage of the US population experiences some degree of hearing loss

More than 10%

Conductive causes

Build up of ear wax, colds & allergies, ear infection, ruptured ear drum, eustachian tube issues, unusual bone growth or tumors

Sensorineural causes

Aging, damage to the hairs and nerve cells of the inner ear, noise exposure, heredity, certain medications (ototoxicity), certain illnesses

ASL (American sign language)

Visual communication system

Cochlear implants

Surgically implanted devices

External component

Sound processor

Internal component

placed into the cochlear to stimulate the cochlear nerve

What is deaf blindness? what are some causes of deaf blindness

combined hearing and vision loss

causes: complications related to prematurely, genetic syndromes, prenatal complications, postnatal complications