Describe the communication process and identify its key components. Give an example of how this process operates with both oral and written messages (250 words).

1. Contrast encoding and decoding (200 words)
2. What is nonverbal communication? Does it aid or hinder verbal communication? (250 words)
3. Identify three common formal small-group networks and give the advantage of each (250 words)
4. What conditions stimulate emergence of rumors (200 words)
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of email? Of instant messaging? (300 words)
6. What are key challenges in managing information?(350 words)
7. List four specific problems related to language difficulties in cross-cultural communication (350 words)
8. “Ineffective communication is the fault of the sender.”  Do you agree or disagree?  Discuss. (350 words)
9. “What can you do to improve the likelihood that your message will be received and understood as you intended?” (350 words)