This study aims to investigate Instant Messaging from the new rhetorical genre perspective. Considering IM as a primary genre (Bakhtin, 1986) I intend to examine its social motive and social and textual features. Also, using Vygotsky's (1978, 1986) concept of situated learning, I will explain how IM users learn the genre to communicate through it.…

This paper suggests that the usefulness of current discussion of the Oral Communication Across the Curriculum (OCAC) issues and programs is limited by a lack of historical and conceptual grounding. The history of the OCAC movement is summarized and then four perspectives are suggested as ways to better understand the past, present, and future of…

This paper outlines an activity which is designed to make students comfortable speaking in the classroom environment. The paper states that, used properly, the activity is also an introduction to each day's course topic, and it encourages students to think about and report their own life experiences that illustrate a core construct from the day's…

This volume of an annual collection presents eight essays relating to instruction in the basic communication course. The essays are: "The Basic Communication Course at U.S. Colleges and Universities: VI" (Sherwyn P. Morreale, Michael S. Hanna, Roy M. Berko, and James W. Gibson); "How Basic Course Directors Evaluate Teaching…

This 1998 issue of "Carolinas Communication Annual" contains the following articles: "Give Me That Old Time Religion?: A Study of Religious Themes in the Rhetoric of the Ku Klux Klan" (John S. Seiter); "The Three Stooges versus the Third Reich" (Roy Schwartzman); "Interdisciplinary Team Teaching: Implementing…

Suggestions for the preparation of oral reports of research are given. (MS)

The present study was designed to provide a finer analysis of the effects of active and passive vocalization vs. silent visual presentation on recall at various retention intervals through the use of the distractor technique. (Author)

Suggestions for increasing teacher contact. (CH)

Focuses on the role of consultants from the school of liberal arts in the Training Trainers of Teachers process at City College in New York City to several New York City elementary schools. Triple T is a federally funded project intended to provide models for reform in the content and structure of teacher education, as well as reorganize and…

Research supported by contracts from the U.S. Office of Education and the Advanced Projects Research Agency. (DD)

When the present results are combined with those of Bigelow et al., a tenable conclusion is that written information increases help seeking in general but it does not alter students' perceptions of the appropriateness for counseling of personal problems or students' willingness to seek help for such problems. A more powerful procedure is required…