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APA Paper assessing Nonverbals, Listening & The Power of Vulnerability
Assignment description: Watch the Brene Brown TEDtalk while considering her nonverbals, your listening, and the video's message. Then write a 4 page APA style paper that addresses the prompts below (4 pages of content).
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1. Watch this TEDtalk: http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
2. While watching her presentation, take notes about Brown's nonverbal communication and your strategies for listening
3. Then write an APA style paper that describes Brown's nonverbal, your listening, and the power of vulnerability:
• Describe Brown's use of nonverbal, including:
a) rule-guided nonverbals
b) intentional or unintentional nonverbals
c) various kinesics and her physical appearance
d) environmental factors and proxemics
• Describe your own experience with listening for information. Use the strategies on page 157:
a) Be mindful
b) Control obstacles
c) Ask questions (in this case, write some down)
d) Use aids to recall
e) Organize information
• Describe the power of vulnerability
a) What did you learn from watching this TEDtalk?
4. Use accurate APA formatting and citing throughout your paper
Visit the Useful COMM Docs folder for a refresher on how to write an APA style paper, if you need the tutorial
5. As always with APA style, do not skip clear STRUCTURE.
Meaning, your intro paragraph should draw in the reader, have a clear thesis, and then preview the various sections of your paper. Your three main points are the three main topics/sections of your paper. Then your conclusion paragraph restates your thesis, reviews the paper, and provides a clincher.

APA Paper assessing Nonverbals, Listening & The Power of Vulnerability
Paper has strong APA /5
Cover page: running head, page number, title, name, etc.
Content pages: header, page #, title, headings, spacing, font
Citations: Correct in-text and reference page citations

Paper is clearly structured /5
Clear introduction (thesis and preview are distinct)
Sections are frontloaded. Headings are used
Conclusion appropriately summarizes the paper (thesis restatement, review, and clincher)

Content explains Brown's nonverbals, your listening, and lessons from TEDtalk /9
Student thoroughly describes Brown's nonverbal using info from Wood (2010) chapter 5
Student describes his/her own listening process using content from chapter 6
Student explains the lessons s/he learned from watching Brown's talk
Content is clear, concise, and on-topic
Ideas are frontloaded (first sentence of each paragraph)

Paper meets length expectations (4 pages of content/ does not exceed 5) /3

Other feedback:

Total Points Earned: /22

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The meaning of vulnerability is examined.

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a) rule-guided nonverbal

The rule-guided nonverbal communication in this TedTalks discussion was placated upon the use of a room that indicated the speaker was speaking formally because the room where the speech was given was designed with a formal design wherein the speaker spoke from a distance in regard to her proximity to the listeners' chairs. In addition, the speaker did not have a podium, but she was on a stage, which clearly highlighted that she was a treasured guest that held some high status, despite the fact that she engaged in banter with the crowd that could be construed as informal as she told jokes while delving into her discussion on vulnerability. Nevertheless, the nonverbal communication was palpable in regard to the speaker being able to convey her emotions through her nonverbal communication on several occasions.

b) intentional or unintentional nonverbal

She intentionally dressed nicely for the occasion while also intentionally controlling her nonverbal emotive actions through communication that exacerbated her spoken verbal words. She was professional yet approachable in the sense that she elicited laughter from the crowd through her jokes while also eliciting deep thought through her focus on her psychology background that allowed her to deliberately control the narrative throughout the session. Therefore, if she chose to lighten up the mood with jokes, she would make nonverbal actions that would indicate that listeners should or could laugh ...

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