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The Importance, Significance, and Relevance of Communication: A Fourth Study of the Criticality of the Discipline's Content and Pedagogy
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Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Broeckelman-Post, Melissa A.; Anderson, Lindsey B.; Ledford, Victoria A.; Westwick, Joshua N. – Communication Education, 2023
The results of this study argue that communication, and specifically oral communication education, is critical to students' future personal and professional success. Similar to three earlier studies, thematic analysis of 2,155 articles, identified in academic and popular press publications extending from 2016 to 2020, provides support for the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Oral Language, Success, Literature Reviews
Study IX of the Basic Communication Course at Two- and Four-Year U.S. Colleges and Universities: A Re-Examination of Our Discipline's "Front Porch"
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Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Myers, Scott A.; Backlund, Philip M.; Simonds, Cheri J. – Communication Education, 2016
This study gathered longitudinal and descriptive data on the nature of the basic communication course, continuing a tradition dating back to 1968. Now in its ninth iteration, convenience sampling and hard copy distribution of the survey instrument resulted in a total of 188 respondents (21 from two-year schools, 167 from four-year schools). This…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Communication Skills, Communication Strategies, Course Descriptions
Consistency and Change: The (R)Evolution of the Basic Communication Course
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Valenzano, Joseph M., III; Wallace, Samuel P.; Morreale, Sherwyn P. – Communication Education, 2014
The basic communication course, with its roots in classical Greece and Rome, is frequently a required course in general education. The course often serves as our "front porch," welcoming new students to the Communication discipline. This essay first outlines early traditions in oral communication instruction and their influence on future…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication Strategies, Speech Communication, Intellectual History
The Basic Communication Course at Two- and Four-Year U.S. Colleges and Universities: Study VIII--The 40th Anniversary
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Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Worley, David W.; Hugenberg, Barbara – Communication Education, 2010
This eighth in a series of surveys of the basic communication course, begun in 1968, has as its purpose to gather longitudinal and descriptive data on the nature of the course. The latest study differs from past studies in that some of the results are presented comparatively for two-year and four-year colleges and universities. Samples for both…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Communication Strategies