CG1413

Time sure has passed by pretty fast. I can still remember the first time I entered Mr James' CG1413 class during the start of the semester. Being greeted by a group of strangers, I was not sure what to expect from this module. Now, it has already been 13 weeks and we've come to the end of the module. Throughout this time, not only have I made a great bunch of friends, I have learned a whole lot about communication from Mr James himself.

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It's been awhile since the last post and plenty of things have passed. One of the more important events was the dreaded Oral Presentation for CG1413.

The preparation towards the final oral presentation was not an easy one. With the CG1102 and CG1108 projects happening concurrently, deadlines were reaching, fast.

Soon, it was Monday, 22nd March - the day of presentation. After a long haul of preparation work, it was over in a mere 40 minutes. Even with relief, the group did not feel great about the presentation.

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First off, I'd like to wish everybody a happy chinese new year and hope everyone's enjoying their holidays (it's hard to with our schedule but let's try).

Now, back to the topic. Last thursday, on the 11th of February, our group held a discussion in a room at PGP. It was a nice, quiet place for us to work on our project as well as conduct our meeting. We were able to do so with little or no interruptions at all.

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When there's human interaction, conflicts will tend to happen. Most of the time, we do not want these conflicts to occur as it will cause delays and sour relationships.

Of the many conflicts that happened, the following is one of the bigger ones.

It happened when I was in the first year of junior college. My class was seperated into groups of 4 to do project work and I was tasked to be group leader. Time was ticking and the deadline to hand up our 2000 word report was reaching faster than we would like it to be. We were only halfway through so we sent our work into overdrive. However, one of my group members, Ah Kow, did not feel the need to rush. He took his time to complete his parts and seldom contribute to ideas.

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We live in Singapore, a multi-cultural society. In one way or another, we interact with people belonging to different cultures and races. When communicating between one another, we have to make sure that we preserve mutual respect and minimise antagonism. Sometimes, communication can get quite sensitive hence, we need to watch what we say to avoid stepping on other people's toes and cause an unwanted conflict.

Coming from a chinese orientated primary school, I hardly interacted with people of other cultures and races for the most part of my childhood. I was young and ignorant of other races. Some adults even portray people of other races abducting their children to threaten them to behave. I was guilty of falling for those tricks.

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The 7 Cs - Clear, Concise, Concrete, Correct, Coherent, Complete, Courteous.

Firstly, being clear helps to convey the message easily. This allows the audience to quickly decipher and understand the points brought up by the writer. Secondly, when the writing is concise, the points are more straightforward. There is no beating around the bush since the unnecessary parts are removed. Thirdly, to be concrete is to be specific. Showing evidence and examples can help to back up whatever points that were

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