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Hall, Robert N., Ed. – 1978
Intended to provide current information about graduate programs in speech communication to prospective graduate students, teachers, administrators, and counselors, this directory is also useful to speech departments in evaluating or expanding their programs. Information is provided for 279 departments in the following areas: admission…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Degrees (Academic), Directories, Graduate Study
Millar, Frank E. – 1979
The communicative skills of listening and nondefensive negotiation for understanding rather than persuasive tactics for coercion are emphasized in this discussion as crucial in helping people deal with the tremendous amount of information received daily. The paper describes some conceptual interconnections between information, communication, and…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Dissemination
Thomas, David A. – 1979
Using some of the tools of fantasy theme analysis, this paper analyzes the rhetoric of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War, as an expression of the rhetorical visions of the American South. Specifically, the paper deals with two speeches--Davis's farewell to the United States Senate, from which he…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse, Regional Attitudes, Rhetoric
Judd, Larry R. – 1979
Corporate advocacy is the study and practice of communication efforts to advance the policies of business, education, governmental, and nonprofit institutions. The functions of the advocate include gathering information, providing advice based on the information, conducting advocacy programing, and evaluating results. Advocacy research is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrators, Business, Information Dissemination
Cambra, Ronald E.; Klopf, Donald W. – 1979
Communication apprehension among Hawaiians is the subject of three related papers in this document. Each of the papers defines communication apprehension and discusses the implications of such anxiety on a person's functioning in society. The first paper describes a study in which 16% of a sample of University of Hawaii students, also employed,…
Descriptors: Business Skills, College Students, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research
Johnson, Ralph A. – 1979
Just as strong limbs do not ensure self-defense in an age of modern warfare, so strong persuasive appeals do not ensure self-defense in an age of highly technologized communication systems. The fragmentation of the audience, the inherent loss of credibility associated with the decreased status of rhetoric, and the competition among messages all…
Descriptors: Audience Participation, Audiences, Communication Skills, Critical Thinking
Harwood, Kenneth – 1978
Professors of rhetoric are viewing with concern the prospect of 15 years of declining enrollment in higher education. It has been speculated that the decline in enrollment will be less severe in large, well-established, urban institutions with low tuition, a clear mission or well-defined public image, well-planned modest growth, established…
Descriptors: Art, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communications, Declining Enrollment
Bratton, Mary Elizabeth Cataldi – 1978
This observer's manual is designed to familiarize people with the System for Integrated Language Communications Observation (SILCO), which rates the degree of integrated language communications instruction occurring in elementary classrooms during 40-minute time blocks. Sections of the manual discuss SILCO's development, organization,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Kaufman-Everett, Ileen; Backlund, Philip M. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine how well speech communication departments prepare graduate teaching assistants to teach basic communication courses. Questionnaire responses were obtained from 124 graduate departments of speech communication or theater on the number of teaching assistants, their responsibilities, the percentage of undergraduates…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Download full textALEXANDER, THERON; LEAVERTON, PAUL
IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE CAN BE INVESTIGATED BY STUDYING THEIR VERBAL BEHAVIOR. THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE USE OF EMOTIONAL WORDS, BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE, AND THE TOTAL VERBAL OUTPUT OF NORMAL AND DISORDERED CHILDREN TO DETERMINE IF SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN VERBAL EXPRESSION OCCUR. TWO GROUPS OF…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Computers, Emotional Disturbances
Williams, Joanna P. – 1968
Findings of a seminar which explored the current linguistics methods of teaching elementary reading and examined the background of this approach and some programs constant with it are presented. The seminar established the following set of criteria for describing the important characteristics of a linguistics method: (1) task definitions of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Intonation, Linguistics, Listening Skills
Ringwall, Egan A.; And Others – 1965
A research project was aimed at measuring the relationship between infant vocalizations and linguistic development and determining the feasibility of using infant vocalizations as a predictor of later psychological and intellectual status. However, a method was needed to analyze the vocalizations of infants. This report describes a method used to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Data Collection, Infant Behavior
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1966
To aid recent adult immigrants to the United States in learning English, a student guide with the same extensive sentence and work patterns as in the teachers' guide (AC 003 121) has been prepared to complement oral drill by teachers and tapes. Dialogues dealing with common situations a person meets in daily life have been designed to provide oral…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Individual Activities
Goldhaber, Gerald M.; And Others – 1977
After 750 combined hours of analysis, the authors discovered major verbal and nonverbal communication differences between the candidates in the three Ford/Carter debates. The research was based on an analysis of 7,378 specific nonverbal behaviors and on 955 verbal references found in the 30,852 word transcripts. The researchers found differences…
Descriptors: Body Language, Comparative Analysis, Debate, Interaction Process Analysis
Berryman, Cynthia L. – 1976
The use of exercises and games in teaching the process of public speaking provides a novel and effective approach for teacher and student. This paper justifies a process orientation to public-speaking instruction and offers practical exercises, games, and activities for teaching the major rhetorical aspects involved in the process of public…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Higher Education, Learning Activities
