Essay on Article C

Week 4 Report

What is the problem?

• NUS students are not as daring to give comments and in articulating their ideas across as compared to SMU students. 

    What is the purpose?

•         How could the quality of NUS students’ oral communication be improved.
•         Convince NUS to take up the programmes (New curriculum) suggested 

   What are the questions?

•       How could the quality of NUS students’ oral communication be improved.
•             How should NUS curriculum be changed to facilitate better oral communication skills?
•         What the areas students are weak in? (Pacing, Pronounciation, language)

o   Presentation Skills

o   Interviewing Skills

o   Analytical Skills

o   Confidence Skills

•      How are the existing courses facilitating oral communication? 
•     For courses that don’t facilitate students oral communication, is there a way for it to be re-configured. (Engineering Courses a component that require them to take presentation)
•        Different oral aspect, sieve out the courses that could help
•      Should we have oral communication examinable? 

  Outline

Introduction --> Background --> PPQ --> Findings --> Recommendations --> Conclusion.

Interpersonal Conflict

Interpersonal conflict occurs due to myriad of personalities in each individual.

My friend Nancy told me about how she was confronted during physics tuition. It was a norm that homework questions would be revised through during lesson. The method of revising through would be seat by seat, each student will have to give the answer they had written for the question.

While Nancy did not complete the tutorial assignment she was supposed to do, she asked Joe for help as Nancy felt that Joe was the closest friend she has and she did not want to feel left out without answering the question. Instead of being helpful, Joe went to confront her and said nastily “It is your problem that you did not complete your homework, why should I be so kind to share answers with you”

As seen, Joe had a very direct and confrontational personality however, Nancy even though was in the wrong, she had a passive character where she does not know how to retaliate in situations like this.

Yes, even though Nancy should be responsible for her own homework and her friend isn’t wrong in saying words like this. Can’t conflict be minimized if Joe used words that aren’t so nasty? He could have used words that will not hurt the other party feelings.

If you were to face any confrontation, be it whether you are right or wrong, how will you face it/deal with it?

*Nancy & Joe are fictional names*