Describe the relationship.  Who are the participants?  What is the history of the relationship?  What is the current status of the relationship? 

Describe the relationship.  Who are the participants?  What is the history of the relationship?  What is the current status of the relationship? 

This paper involves more than just simply summarizing the development of a relationship.  While you will want to offer some description of the relationship; the main emphasis should be on how it has developed in communication between two people.  You should organize your paper into the following three parts:

Introduction:  Describe the relationship.  Who are the participants?  What is the history of the relationship?  What is the current status of the relationship?  This information should be relatively brief.  Next, preview the body of the paper by indicating the terms/concepts you will use to analyze the relationship. Body:  In this section of the paper you will analyze the relationship using interpersonal communication concepts, terms, topics, etc.  This is by far the longest section of the paper.

First organize the body of the paper around the stages of friendship or romantic relationship development (see your textbook). These stages can provide an excellent outline for the paper.  The key here is to talk about how the stages are created in COMMUNICATION.  How did communication change to move the relationship to another stage, and how did communication define a certain stage?

Select at least three concepts that we’ve discussed in class and apply them to your relationship. You may discuss these concepts and how they affected the communication in your relationship as you take us through the stages, or you may want to discuss them apart from the stages in terms of how they have played out in your relationship.  Use evidence to support your claims and use it in each stage—using direct quotes from the text, and specific examples from your relationship.  If you fail to give evidence, it will significantly lower your grade.

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