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Genderlect theory

Genderlect Theory is a theory based on the idea that men and women speak a different language. Due to their cultural diversity, men and women have different values in the way they communicate, and thus communicate differently. Genderlect Theory views communication between men and women through a humanistic and scientific approach.

As a French person and a Japanese person would communicate differently, so would a man and a woman. The essential difference that drives each gender's behavior is that women have a profound drive to seek the furtherance of relationships, whilst men have a deeper drive to seek status. Since men and women have different goals in mind, it affects the way they communicate. Women, with the goal of seeking deeper relationships, tend to speak more about emotion. They will stick to private groups more often to build deeper relations. They also tend to listen more in an effort to better understand the people they are spending time with. On the other hand, men will generally speak of more objective topics in an effort to put themselves above others. They will stick to more public scenes because the audience has the power to give men the status and attention they seek. And instead of listening, men will interrupt people to get the attention and status they seek .--Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 06:16, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia assignment 1

I am going to go through each assignment and tell you what I did for them. I did not do this previously because I did not know that it needed to be done. Assignment 1 was orientation to WikipediaBmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 06:57, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 2

For assignment number 2 I made some edits in my sandbox and attempted to learn how to navigate Wikipedia, which I am still learning. I also left a message on somebody's talk page, I have no idea who it was though. I also created my user page.Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 07:01, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 3

I decided that my article that I was going to work on was Genderlect Theory.Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 07:02, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 4

Joy and I worked on Genderlect theory together and devised a two paragraph summary of what we knew Genderlect theory to be. Here it is.

Genderlect Theory is a theory based on the idea that men and women speak a different language. Due to their cultural diversity, men and women have different values in the way they communicate, and thus communicate differently. Genderlect Theory views communication between men and women through a humanistic and scientific approach.[1]

As a French person and a Japanese person would communicate differently, so would a man and a woman. The essential difference that drives each gender's behavior is that women have a profound drive to seek the furtherance of relationships, whilst men have a deeper drive to seek status[2]. Since men and women have different goals in mind, it affects the way they communicate. Women, with the goal of seeking deeper relationships, tend to speak more about emotion. They will stick to private groups more often to build deeper relations. They also tend to listen more in an effort to better understand the people they are spending time with. On the other hand, men will generally speak of more objective topics in an effort to put themselves above others. They will stick to more public scenes because the audience has the power to give men the status and attention they seek. And instead of listening, men will interrupt people to get the attention and status they seek [3].--Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 06:16, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 07:09, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 5

Joy and I had already selected Genderlect Theory to work on and got a head start on it. We proceeded to post the actual article but it was soon challenged and taken off because of its sources. The sources that we used were not scholarly enough and the page was collapsed into Language and Gender. Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 07:12, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 6

As I said before, Joy and I had already started and nearly completed our article, but it became collapsed and so we decided to try and help on the article that it was collapsed into, Language and gender. I wrote the following

Women are generally believed to speak a better "language" then men do. This is a constant misconception, but scholars believe that no gender speaks a better language, but that each gender instead speaks its own unique language. This notion has sparked further research into the study of the differences between the way men and women communicate.

Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 08:05, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 7

We moved our articles into the main space long before this assignment was due. Our article being collapsed really threw this whole process into confusion. Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 08:07, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 8

I selected to review Bcasey09 and Lcollins09 work. Bcasey is working on Genderlect Theory, which later became language and gender, and Lcollins is working on nonverbal communication. Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 08:12, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 9

As a reviewer for Bcasey and also a worker on the Language and Gender article, I have been commenting and reviewing the work that people are doing on the article. I also looked at Lcollins work and was very impressed with what she did, and so were some other Wikipedians. I told her on her talk page because I wanted to make sure that she saw what I said. Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 08:21, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia assignment 10

I have yet to receive any feedback, but when i do, i will respond! Bmanswag63738247382648274 (talk) 08:35, 1 May 2013 (UTC)