COMMUNICATION CYCLE Communication is a fundamental part of all of our lives. There are many different methods of communication and we are gaining more and more all the time. Communication ranges from a note stuck on the fridge door, to video conferencing and phoning. The communication cycle is a structure that was thought up about how we communicate. It suggests that we ‘Aim’ what we want to say, how we’ll say it, what we want the other person to do with the information. This is the stage in which we think particularly about how we will communicate the information and to who we wish to communicate with. Once we have organized what we want to say, who to say it to and how to say it, we have to consider social influences and other things that may change what we want to say. This is the 'Encoding' stage. We have to consider what language to say it in, what we assume ...