Jessica Hoover
Pre-class Survey
HCS 320

Communication is sharing ideas and information with other individuals. An individual’s thinks that communication is a written or even oral form but it can be much more than that. Communication can be a touch on the shoulder, a certain look you may give, and it can be someone slapping another person. Communication can be define as a transmitting, exchanging, or giving information, gestures, or even signals. Communication can also be defined as a quick telephone call or even through a radio. There are two types of communication, which is non-verbal and verbal. Non-verbal is transferring information without talking such as writing information down on paper. Some people may not think about non-verbal communication that we see every day, one example a red light or a stop sign. Body language and facial expressions is another form of non-verbal communication. Verbal we talk through our mouths to communicate to one another. Another form of verbal is animals, some may chirp when mating season comes along, the birds sing, and dogs bark when they want something or inform you when someone is walking through the door. As you can see, there is different form way of communicating not just use humans either. Today a lot people communicate through the internet and television also. The purpose of communication is to understand people more and to connect with that person. Another reason is to share emotions or thoughts to each other. The purpose of communication is to send messages to each other that you can understand. For an example if your child comes and tells you that their hungry, now if we didn’t have a purpose for communication then how can we relate to each other what we want. Another reason for purpose of communication is to share information to each other or even ask someone do something for you. In advertising, the