Research Proposal

Amanda Gridley

English 250

A.R.Morry

March 12, 2014

Research Proposal

Communication is used by everyone, everyday. Whether it’s through visual or verbal communication, it is not something that can be avoided in a functional day-to-day life. Communication is used to express thoughts to others, and for us as college students, this is a skill we all need to master in order to be successful in our future careers. The problem with communication, is that there are so many different forms, and not everyone uses the same one. Because of this, studying and learning how to properly communicate between each other is much more difficult. While my future career is in the medical field, Optometry to be more specific, most of my classmates are in engineering. Through my research, I have learned that while engineers communicate through diagrams and brief summaries, my future form of communication will be detailed documents and person-to-person speech skills, depending on the position i will hold. Compared to the engineers, I will be dealing more with people in person, while they will be dealing with their clients through manuals and emails. That is another problem in communication; while each career has it’s own set of communication methods, there are many smaller, more specific jobs inside of these brood job titles. Basically communication not only differs between one career field, to the next, but also between different positions inside a career field. 

For this class, we have been instructed to write an essay on the topic of communication in our future career. With such a brood range of possible focus points, I decided to include multiple key ideas, that I think are important to consider when thinking about communication. Below are a few of the questions I will be answering in my essay:

1. How do the different forms of writing and communication in medical fields effect the day-to-day life of the doctor/patient relationship?

2)How do communication barriers effect the relationship between a patient and their doctor?

3)What kinds of communication work best in the medical field between both the patient and other coworkers. How can these forms of communication be improved upon in our society future, and who has the power to change this?

4)Who might an optometrist communicate with on a regular basis. What are some possible communication barriers that could effect the optometrist’s job? How would they get through these barriers?