BEFORE YOU WRITE:
Use the conflict assessment tools in the textbook chapter to identify strengths, challenges and weaknesses in your usual styles of managing conflict. Identify, observe and self-monitor interactions that involve the expressed disagreement between interdependent parties.
DRAFTING THE ESSAY:
In your one-page essay, address the following:
    Which conflict styles seemed to produce the most satisfying outcomes? In what situations?
    Describe the pros and cons of the style you most commonly use (use it as an example).
    What is a conflict ritual and why do they develop?
    If someone wants to make changes in the way they manage interpersonal conflict, how could they go about making them?
Conflict:

** Remember, while the prompt asks you to examine your own conflict experiences and management, the informative ESSAY must be structured to share information about what conflict is and how it can be effectively managed in interpersonal relationships; use examples and experiences from your own life and consideration of the prompt to support the main ideas you are discussing. (Do not make this a list of responses to the prompt questions; keep to a more formal, academic style — not a personal journal style.)