Communication Written Analysis

Assignment Instructions

1. Now you are ready to watch the movie or TV show you choose:

2. You have now completed the readings from Week 3 - 5 and are ready to watch a movie or TV show to analyze the Therapeutic and Non-Therapeutic communication.

3. Your faculty have used the website The Truth about Nursing introduced to you in Week 2 to choose a listing of TV shows and movies appropriate for this project. You can choose any TV show or movie from the list below:

4. Once you have watched your chosen show, you will complete the Communication Written Analysis assignment. Remember the assignment is worth 6% of your final grade and must be completed by the due date. There will be no extensions.

5. Please refer to your weekly guide and course outline for dates.

Write a 250-500 word analysis of the movie or TV show you watched. Your analysis should include examples of: Therapeutic, and Non-Therapeutic communication, as well

as 2 of the 5 principles of communication. You should also include either examples of phenomenology, words/meaning, conflict or caring and compassion in communication to demonstrate and highlight your points.

You must use APA referencing of your textbooks.

Your assignment should have an APA title page.

Your assignment must include the full name of the movie or TV show, and either the year it was filmed (movie) or the episode number and season (TV show).

Remember basic essay writing principles: essays must have a brief introduction and summary; must be in full sentences with appropriate grammar and spelling.

If you need a refresher or examples on essay writing including structure and set up of an academic essay please click on this link to ensure you are on the right track: Academic Essay Writing Basics opens in new window

Submit your completed assignment into the Assignment folder. All assignments will be monitored for plagiarism using Turnitin.

Assignments will be graded out of 15 with 3 marks for APA/formatting and 12 marks for content.

Write your essay using APA format (font, spacing, title page, reference page, intext citations)? Hint - you can review the APA module to ensure you are doing this correctly

1. Did you write a brief introduction paragraph for an academic essay?

2. Did you include what you watched (name of show/movie, release date/episode/season)?

3. Identify at least 1 therapeutic and 1 non-therapeutic example of communication with examples?

4. Identify at least 2 of the 5 principles of communication that you saw with examples?

5. Did you include at least 1 of the concepts of phenomenology, caring and compassion, conflict, or use of words/meaning with examples?

6. Did you write a brief summary for an academic essay?

7. Did you check your spelling and grammar?

If you answered yes to all of the above then you are ready to submit - go to the assignment folder and upload your assignment