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Essay 2250 words and one page essay plan (270 words )
Explain your understanding of intercultural communication through three experiences you have had. Drawing on ideas from the course, relevant literature (including course readings) and your own experience/interests, describe and reflect on three experiences that you have had of intercultural communication.
One of these experiences could be the same as the one you presented in Assessment 2. Presentation (Google Home) core reading attached to the file, (Talking with Technologies, Communities and how does our language shape our thoughts?
.In your essay:
1. Introduce the key ideas that will inform your reflections on your experiences
2.Explain why you chose these experiences as examples of intercultural communication
3. Describe what you observed during the experiences (about yourself and others ( for example disability people how google home SUPPORT people with disability)With reference to relevant literature:
4. Discuss your reflections on what it is that is going in these experiences
5.Suggest how these experiences exemplify intercultural communication in the contemporary world
6.Consider how these experiences and reflections have affected your thinking about yourself and others in intercultural communication.
7. Attach your observation notes on the three examples of intercultural communication to your essay as an appendix. As part of this assessment task you will develop a one page essay plan to be discussed with your tutor in the tutorial.
You will need to:
1.O utline the key ideas that will inform your reflections on your experiences
2.Identify the three experiences of intercultural communication
3. Include a list of key references from relevant literature
4.Bring your essay plan to class in week 10 to workshop in groups/discuss with your tutor
5. Include notes/ideas from the workshop into your essay plan to show the development of your ideas 6. submit your essay plan and notes with your essay
It is strongly recommended that internet sources be kept to a minimum and then only if referencing factual/ statistical information or the reference pertains to an online academic journal.
Criteria for assessing the essay:
1. explanation of focus (i.e. three examples of experiences or case study) 2. demonstrated understanding and use of relevant literature
3. organisation of essay (an introduction that presents the focus and main arguments, a body that presents and illustrates the main points and shows how they relate to the task, and a brief conclusion)
4. appropriate academic conventions (in text referencing of material used from other authors, accurate list of harvard referencing , written expression)
5. evidence of reflection and reflexivity 6.
essay plan attached to final submission (essay plan should address the essay plan requirements outlined above)
