Introductory Blog

My current field of study is Nutrition and Food Science, but I hope to soon transfer into the Nutrition major. I use communication in my studies to understand the material I am learning in school. There are many different ways in which I communicate with my professors, but the most common method is in-class lectures. I have also used email to contact them out of class and attended office hours. An interesting method of communication one of my professors decided to try was a Facebook group where he posted the lecture slides of every class and everyone had the chance to ask questions, post comments, or reply to other students' questions. I enjoyed his choice of communication because I realized that I often had the same questions as other students and this way, everyone was able to see his replies. I found this to be one of the most efficient modes to communicate since everyone is already so comfortable with using Facebook, so there was no confusion and it gave students a chance to interact with one another and not just the teacher. The Facebook group was only a pilot project and its results are now being assessed: http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/~iip/IRC/news.html

As for the role of communication in my future work, if school goes the way I plan, I will hopefully be using communication on a daily basis as a Dietitian. In this profession, above most, communication plays a crucial role as most Dietitians are constantly communicating with their clients about their nutritional needs. It seems that Evelyn also agrees with me, in her blog, that communication skills are very important for a Dietitian to possess: http://elycheng1992.blogspot.com/ Dietitians deal with all types of patients with many different conditions so they have to be very clear, concise, and precise. Hopefully ALES 204 can help me develop all of these skills which are essential regardless of what my profession is.


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