Technical jargon is defined as the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group. For example, the technical words used by lawyers is referred to as legal jargon. Often professionals use a type of technical jargon when discussing concepts and ideas in their field. While this works well when communicating with other professionals who speak the same language, it is often confusing for people outside the field. It is important, therefore, for professionals to be able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders.
· Form a group of two (if an online student, please ask a friend or family member to participate with you).
· Each member of the group should use the internet to identify a short description of a technical process that utilizes a large amount of industry jargon.
· Choose one member of the team to read his or her description of a technical process (the reader) to the other team member (the listener). The reader should clearly read the description to the listener. The listener should ask the reader to explain the meaning of all technical jargon included in the description. The reader should not continue reading the description until the listener is satisfied with the explanation.
· The reader should then summarize the process to the listener without using the technical jargon.
· Feel free to use drawings or diagrams as you explain.
· This process should then be repeated with the reader becoming the listener and the listener taking on the role of the reader.
After completing the exercise, write a 500-word reflection essay. The essay should address the following questions:
1) Describe your experience as the reader.
a. What communication challenges did you face during this process? How did you overcome these challenges?
b. What non-verbal body language (from the listener) did you observe during this process? What did the non-verbal body language of your partner indicate to you?
c. If you were to participate in this exercise again, what could you do to avoid any challenges in communication and ensure that the listener clearly understood the information you were relaying?
2) Describe your experience as the listener.
a. What communication challenges did you face during this process? How did you overcome these challenges?
b. What non-verbal body language (from the reader) did you observe during this process? What did the non-verbal body language of your partner indicate to you?
c. If you were to participate in this exercise again, what could you do to avoid any challenges in communication and ensure you clearly understood the information relayed by the reader?
3) Describe any other observations you have pertaining to communication during this process.
Sample Solution
Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell.
In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.
God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.
Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.
To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.
References
Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.
Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.
Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.
