Trimester Learning: Business Communication, Academic Writing, and Intercultural Communication

Running head: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
Business Communication
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Trimester Learning
The trimester has been very useful for teaching many different kinds of
topics for business education. I am really very thankful to all my teachers for
conducting the lectures over all these weeks so that all of us are able to
develop ourselves as ideal business professionals in the upcoming year.
Different topics have been dealt with in different weeks. Some of the
important topics that were discussed are business communication, academic
writing, business communication and others.
Main theories covered
As per my perception this is one of the most important topics as this will be
helping in understanding about the right ways of communication. Neuliep
(2017) has suggested that in order to carry on the business communication
in a sound and uninterrupted way, the senders must take proper feedbacks
from the receivers in order to know if they have been able to understand the
message properly (Soules 2015). I have learned that none of the business
communication process will be going on smoothly if no updates or
communications are taken in a proper way. LASSWELL’S MODEL was
taught to us in the trimester and it has been able to teach the
communication process in an easy manner. I have been able to learn the
means of effective business communication.
The other week taught about business communication and
academic writing. During this week, I learned about the proper methods of
writing the academic assignments. However initially I had problems in
understanding the assignment writing. I was unable to write the assignments
with references, I did not know how to do the referencing after writing the
assignments. Thus I often used to get less marks. I realized that I used to
get less marks because of the poor standard of the content. After going
through this week, I learned that I have to use the proper search keywords in
the credible search engines like YAHOO, Google and others.

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The art of producing good written communication is also
important for becoming a good business manager (Zhonggen and Guifang
2016). Thus I realized that in order to shine in the field of business
communication I have to write an appealing assignment. I learned how to
use the logos, pathos and the ethos aspects in the written assignments
projects (Mori 2016).
Intercultural communication was an important part of the classroom
sessions. I learned that in order to survive in the modern business
environment it is important for a manager to bring a multi cultural expertise
in his workplace. Thus I have to learn how to socialize with people coming
from different socio cultural backgrounds
Week 10 has been specifically interesting for me. As I learned about
the digital messaging mediums that are used in the modern day business
context I realized how to compose crisp and easily understandable business
messages (Piller 2017).
Issues faced
 I was having an issue in analyzing the audiences while preparing any
written assignments. I realized that the audiences are of varying
mindsets and varied preference patterns. Thus, the written assignment
must contain the news in a very precise and a very crisp manner. They
must be able to provide the information in such a way that it can
create a hook for the audiences.
 I realized that analyzing the audience demographic is of utmost
importance before preparing the business assignments or even before
composing any kinds I business mails.
 Cultural relativism was a tough area for me as I was not comfortable in
interacting with people belonging from other religions and cultures.