Running Head: EFFECTIVE LISTENING
EFFECTIVE LISTENING
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How to be a more effective at listening
Brady Stamper
University of Kentucky
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Abstract
This is an annotated reference paper is wrote to serve the purpose of going through five sources to help research how to make yourself become a better listener. The problem that is trying to be solved is how can someone crack the code to become a better listener? What techniques can be used to overcome the problem with drifting off somewhere else while you're supposed to be listening to something else? These five sources were mostly experiments conducted by different professionals many different times to see how people are able to listen nowadays compared to the generations before and also how to make the people of today better listeners. In all of these studies it was based on how to make someone a better listener, and the conclusion is that there are many different techniques to make someone a better listener.
Communication Skills Lab
English: The Active Listening Chart shows the prog...
Been ListeningIt's not too late to learn how to be better at it.
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Brady Stamper
Com 252
K. Wombacher
September 21, 2014
C. Glenn Pearce, Iris W. Johnson, and Randolph T. Barker,
Enhancing the Student Listening Skills and Environment,
Business Communication Quarterly, December 1995;
vol. 58, 4: pp. 28-33. Web. September 21, 2014.
DOI: 10.1177/108056999505800406
In the article, Enhancing the Student Listening Skills and Environment, the authors talk about the complex process of listening. We learn that listening is something we are engaged in about 45% of the time. They teach us that colleges and programs have devoted a lot less time to teaching listening skills. They show us there are four different types of listening levels: Active, Involved, Passive, and Detached. Also of several other areas that affect listening. The article is from 1995 so...