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Men’s and Women’s Talk Report
How do men and women become better at communicating with each other? The research shows that the styles of the communication between genders are very different. Women experience more personal emotional connections in their conversations than men. Men don’t show as much emotion as women. Psychologists call this “report talking." Women use language as “rapport talkers." According to the video “How to Talk to the Other Gender” by Dr. Gearing, she said, “The simple fact is that men and women use language in dramatically different ways." Dr. Gearing’s perceptions will appear more clearly after discovering the differences between topics and style in men’s and women’s conversations. The two articles that I will discuss in this report are “His Talk, Her Talk” by Joyce Maynard and “Man to Man, Woman to Woman” by Mark A. Sherman and Adelaide Haas. The article by Joyce Maynard uses more personal experience that happened between her and her husband. Although she has a very persuasive approach to the topics and style of the gender's conversation, one person’s experience, it’s not enough to understand the difference of the genders. On the other hand, the article by Sherman and Haas uses more statistic evidence to approach the point. However, there is no personal experience. Both articles have their positives and negatives, but I personally recommend the article by Sherman and Haas.
In “His Talk, Her Talk," Joyce Maynard writes about the different characteristics of men’s talk, and women’ talk. She based her research on her experience that happened between her and her family. Joyce Maynard brings out the theory of man and aggression, woman and submission, man and intellect, woman and instinct. Even though, there i...

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.... Moreover, she didn’t provide with many great facts like Sherman, and Haas did. The only thing she describes in her article is how conversation topics were different, but she didn’t provide her personal experience where she had agreed or disagree with her husband which would be helpful for married couples to make a connection. However, there are a number of people who would like to read a personal experience rather than numbers; they want to relate to the story. In the article by Joyce Maynard says, “It’s a natural instinct to seek out, on occasion, the company of one’s own sex, exclude members of the other sex and not feel guilty about it," I think it’s a really good idea that she mentions the statement above in her article. Sometimes married couples need to seek for their same-sex friends just to express their feelings or to receive a feedback for their own good.

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