Surveyed engineers to determine their communication needs. Results showed that interpersonal communication, listening behavior, leadership, and group discussion were considered the most important communication skills, while public speaking, interviewing, and parliamentary procedures were considered the least important. (PD)

Provides examples of children's use of oral games and suggests that they are excellent material to establish the needed links between experience, speech, and the written word. (HOD)

Presentations on the life, character, influence, and contribution to speech education of four great teachers who practiced the humane tradition. (PD)

Identifies nine rhetorical strategies in Nixon's public utterances on Watergate and traces their development through four phases. Examines polls which reveal that these strategies failed to stem the tide of negative opinion. (PD)

Explains how the Random Access Telephone System (RATS) provides home-telephone linkage to tape-recorded materials for a basic communication course, thus increasing instructional contact time with students. (PD)

Argues in favor of including instruction in speaking skills in technical writing courses. Shows how to go about incorporating dialog skills into what is first and foremost a composition course. (RL)

Analyzes excerpts from eighteen of Robert M. Krauss's dialog transcripts in order to characterize the sequential and structural relations between naming and describing. Specifically, investigates how a referential description is shortened into a name through use, and what parts of antecedent descriptive phrases are selected to form the consequent…

Presents a course proposal for an undergraduate course entitled "Political Communication and Women." Includes six units with instructional objectives, bibliographies, and student activities. The course is designed to identify the special needs of women in elective politics. (JMF)

Discusses the relationship between rhetoric (the study of effective communication) and hermeneutics (the study of how to interpret and understand any kind of communication). Illustrates how principles of rhetoric and hermeneutics apply to lecturing. (PD)

Presents an approach for improving verbal development by using organized slide shows to produce visual/verbal interaction in classroom. Suggests strength of visual involvement is that it provides a procedure for language discovery while achieving cooperation between right and left brain processing. (Author/BK)

Points out that teachers frequently emit nonverbal messages that contradict their verbal messages. Isolates vocal cues (special characteristics of the communicator's voice) as the nonverbal behavior for study. Examines the interaction of vocal cues and verbal messages with respect to impact on teacher credibility. (PD)

Defines the term "shyness" and provides data regarding its prevalence. Discusses the relationship of shyness to other psychological problems and describes attempts to treat it in brief psychotherapy. The general goal of treatment is to provide patients with a problem-solving approach to interpersonal difficulties. (JMF)

Presents an annotated bibliography of 27 items from the ERIC database in the area of speech communication. Areas highlighted include the nature of the discipline/profession; teaching/learning; theory/research; and applied communication. (JMF)

The transference of oral language aptitudes to reading is discussed from a theoretical point of view and some practical suggestions for learning exercises are offered. (JMF)

The necessity for stylistic appropriateness in translation as well as correct content is discussed. To acquire this skill, translators must be trained in stylistics through close examination of their own language and must have practice in translating for different audiences at different levels. (PMJ)