Reasons for taking Business Comm 304

In taking English 304 I want to further develop my communication and listening skills to not only become a better student, but to prepare myself for the real world. Coming into this class, I have noticed that I need to work on my listening skills the most. Listening to everyone's ideas, whether a boss in the future or my teachers today, is a key component of communication that I plan on developing in this class. The reason I have chosen this as the area of need is that upon taking the self study quiz, I found that I had a hard time in 8 phases of communication section. Breaking apart a communication message, I thought would be easy, but upon taking the quiz I found this to be the one area I need the most help in. Whether it was deciding on how the message was encoded, or decoding the message, I struggled badly in this area.