Visualize yourself as a future professional employed in France. Research the conventions of the French communication style to communicate with supervisors, colleagues, clients, and so on within your discipline/industry.
Questions to consider:
- How do professionals in your discipline/industry apply genre conventions (e.g., format, tone, writing style) and netiquette conventions to compose professional correspondence such as emails, memos, and letters for French/English speaking audiences?
- How do the concepts of Direct/Indirect, High Context, Emotionally Expressive, and Formal influence how professionals communicate in-person/virtually and through professional correspondence?
- The following website applies the concepts of Direct/Indirect, High Context, Emotionally Expressive, and Formal to the French communication style: France (IOR).
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How is technical communication used within your discipline/industry to communicate across cultures within a global context?
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How are technical documents (e.g., reports) within your discipline/industry used to accomplish tasks and solve problems?
