Communication_Research_Definition_and_Communication_Model_(M

Communication Research Definition and Communication Model (MLA) Communication Research and Writing 601-01 A Definition and Model of Communication If there is one thing that seems to be a commonality to all people, it is the desire to understand and to be understood. The basic way in which we do this is to send out messages and interpret those of others, to include verbal, non-verbal, art, and other forms of communication. In the basic sense, "communication is the transmission of information, ideas, emotions, skills, etc. (i.e. message), by the use of symbols-words, pictures, figures, graphs etc.," (Berelson and Steiner). "Communication always requires at least three elements -- the sender, the message and the receiver," (Schramm). Understanding communication can enhance the quality of life for all people because it influences every area of our lives. This paper will focus on further defining the key words of this definition, and will give a communication model of this definition to further enhance this definition. A sender may be an individual, speaking, writing, drawing, gesturing, or a communication organization like a newspaper, film studio or publishing house. What happens in the communication process is that the sender takes the information or feelings they want to share and puts it into a form that communication, receiver, process, model, message, definition, , feedback, understanding, symbols, people, one, noise, way, source, sender, make, language, information, elements, understood, understand, shannon, sense, part, meaning, cues, basic, words, within, weaver, transmission, symbol, signals, received, perceived, paper, often, negative, models, messages, interpret, good, film, figures, experience, different, communicate, called, because, another