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Oral Communication · Chapter 1

Same Message, Five Rooms

The information stays constant; the packaging changes, and the packaging is the skill. Pick a message, drop it into one of the five contexts, then slide it up and down the channel richness ladder. Watch which cues the channel deletes — and whether the message can survive without them.
1 · Pick the message
2 · Pick the room (context)
3 · Pick the channel
← richestleanest →
The message in this room

Channel richness ladder

What this channel carries