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Q: The first part of chapter one in your text describes an older "linear model" of communication.  It then goes onto describe "interactive models" of communication.  Read through this in your text, in-depth, and discuss both models and how they differ.  If possible, give an example from your life.

A:  Linear model is depicted as a straight and single line flow starting from the source of information, or origin, to the destination. There is a clear beginning and ending to this model. In the beginning, when this model was first created, it was a simple message received directly from sender to receiver. Later on noise and several other factors like where the message came from were included into the model. Noise resembles any breakage in the message; such as: rewording or summarizing from one recipient to the other could cause some vital details to be forgotten. The interactive model, however, is depicted as a circular shape with no beginning and no end. What is unique about the interactive model is "noise" is replaced by other types of communication like opinions and/or feedback from one source to another. The interactive model also always the pair or multiple of people to communicate dynamically because the constant receiving information, forming opinion or thoughts, then outputting to another person, named the recipient, and the cycle continues over and over.