SYNONYMS: AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

Synonyms are Helpful for Communication Purposes



Synonyms are Helpful for Communication Purposes

Introduction

Synonyms play a remarkable role in communication process. Communication with others is the means through which evaluation occurs—through which it is designed and carried out and through which findings are reported. Communications that initiate and conclude an evaluation (its design and reporting of findings) tend to be more formal, involve a wider range of audiences, and may be more interactive than communications necessary to conduct the evaluation. Reporting of findings is the primary objective of most evaluations and is addressed in the separate entry on reporting.

Synonyms are Helpful for Communication Purposes

Synonyms Help people in communication process. Communications necessary to carry out an evaluation include those undertaken as a very first step to identify stakeholders' concerns and conceptualize the evaluation problem. Further communications among stakeholders and evaluators usually take place when decisions are made about data collection methods and other evaluation activities, and then finally when data are collected (Mehrabian, 2007). Evaluations that are explicitly designated as collaborative or participatory will involve more communication during the evaluation than other evaluation approaches.

Communications during an evaluation usually involve its most immediate stakeholders—those for whom the evaluation is being conducted and those most directly involved in the program or entity being evaluated. Evaluation communications typically take place via meetings or working sessions, individual discussions (formally planned or impromptu), letters, memos, postcards, e-mail, written plans, and other documents that describe aspects of the evaluation (Mehrabian, 2007).

Communication is usually described along a few major dimensions: Content (what type of things are communicated), source/ emisor/ sender/ encoder (by whom), form (in which form), channel (through which medium), destination/ receiver/ target/ decoder (to whom), and the purpose or pragmatic aspect.

Between parties, communication includes acts that confer knowledge and experiences, give advice and commands, and ask questions. These acts may take many forms, in one of the various manners of communication. The form depends on the abilities of the group communicating. Together, communication content and form make messages that are sent towards a destination. The target can be oneself, another person or being, another entity (such as a corporation or group of beings) (Mehrabian, 2007). Communication can be seen as processes of information transmission governed by three levels of semiotic rules:

1. Syntactic (formal properties of signs and symbols),

2. Pragmatic (concerned with the relations between signs/expressions and their users) and

3. Semantic (study of relationships between signs and symbols and what they represent).

Therefore, communication is social interaction where at least two interacting agents share a common set of signs and a common set of semiotic rules. This commonly held rules in some sense ignores auto-communication, including intrapersonal communication via diaries or self-talk, both secondary phenomena that followed the primary acquisition of communicative competences within social interactions.

In a simple model, information or content (e.g. a message in natural language) is sent in some form (as spoken language) from an emisor/ sender/ encoder to a destination/ receiver/ decoder. In a slightly more complex form a sender and ...