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Download full textShedletsky, Leonard J. – 1992
A communications professor decided to teach an undergraduate "theories of communication" seminar course that had been listed but not taught for 12 years or more. The professor asked for advice on how to teach the course by sending an electronic mail message over an information network. The sometimes contradictory advice concerning the…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Electronic Mail, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Nelson, Eileen S.; Webster, Stephanie – 1991
A study examined the effects of rational-emotive therapy (RET) and visualization as interventions to reduce communication apprehension as measured by the Personal Report of Communication Anxiety-25. Forty-seven undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of three groups: RET, visualization, or an attention-placebo group. The RET group…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Higher Education
Hayward, Pamela A. – 1993
Instructors of speaking apprehension courses can get a better picture of how speaking apprehension "feels" by having their students create a visual representation of their fear. One instructor supplied her students with newspapers, magazines, comic books, construction paper, crayons, glue sticks, and small scissors and had them create…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communication Apprehension
Olesen, Kirsten Britt – 1993
A study examined attitudes that discourage students from competing in rhetorical criticism forensic events. Subjects, 31 students at the Michigan Intercollegiate Speech Association state championship, completed a questionnaire. Results indicated that: (1) only 1 of the 11 subjects who had experience in competitive rhetorical criticism chose to…
Descriptors: College Students, Debate, Debate Format, Higher Education
Bauer, Michael H.; And Others – 1991
A study investigated how masters programs in communication departments which are members of the Central States Communication Association compare to other schools and masters programs. Questionnaires were answered by 28 Speech Communication departmental members of the 1988 Central States Communication Association. Findings included the following:…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Degree Requirements, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Cronin, Michael W.; Grice, George L. – 1991
This paper presents materials from a workshop which explored the application of oral communication across the curriculum (OCXC) to enhance the learning of course content and the improvement of oral communication skills. Specifically, the paper aims to prepare participants to articulate the need for oral communication across the curriculum,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Program Content
Hugenberg, Lawrence W., Ed. – 1991
This volume of an annual collection of essays relating to instruction in the basic communication course is presented in five sections: (1) Six Approaches to the Introductory Course: A Forum; (2) 1990 Basic Course Committee Award Winning Papers; (3) Instruction in the Introductory Communication Course; (4) Research on the Introductory Communication…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
Litterst, Judith K. – 1991
This paper describes a popular and innovative major program of study in speech communication at St. Cloud University in Minnesota: the Speech Communication Interdepartmental Major. The paper provides background on the program, discusses overall program requirements, presents sample student options, identifies ingredients for program success,…
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, Degrees (Academic), Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Boatman, Sara A. – 1991
Noting that it is important in communication classes to devise ways to help students to be comfortable with each other, this paper maintains that icebreakers and group builders are strategies that are vital in creating openness and trust in such classes. The paper offers eight icebreakers (activities designed to help students feel comfortable with…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Communication Strategies, Group Activities
Perkins, Terry M. – 1983
David Clavier advances four arguments for placing administrative control of public relations education programs in the hands of journalism departments: (1) tradition, (2) professional associations, (3) essential skills, and (4) resources. However, there is a trend away from teaching public relations in journalism departments because such curricula…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Departments
Esling, John H. – 1982
A person or a group's accent includes not only vowel and consonant articulations, but also a predictable pattern of rhythmic stress placement and tonal or pitch contours, and a combination of configurational features that constitute voice quality setting. English as a second language (ESL) teachers should make their students aware of the habitual…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Language Styles
Dance, Frank E. X. – 1984
The intent of a liberal education is to enhance the student's freedom, the faculty of intentional choice. The capacity of humans to step outside of themselves, which allows development of self-concept and subsequently self-esteem, is potentiated by the humans' unique sign, the symbol. Each of the liberal arts is concerned with the development and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Language Usage, Liberal Arts
Sanford, David L. – 1984
Recommending that communication students be required to learn to use computers not merely as number crunchers, word processors, data bases, and graphics generators, but also as logical inference makers, this paper examines the recently developed technology of logical programing in computer languages. It presents two syllogisms and shows how they…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Innovation
Power, D. J., Ed. – 1981
Information on curriculum development, teaching methods, and research and evaluation needs for communication curricula for hearing impaired pupils is presented in this report of a Melbourne (Australia) workshop. In addition to summary statements of the workshop sessions, the following two papers are presented: "On the Provision of Authentic…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments
Berdan, Robert; Garcia, Maryellen – 1982
The use of observation of natural language interaction as a measure of language proficiency and the impact of discourse characteristics on children's use of Spanish and English as measured by length of utterances are examined. The goal of this observational approach to measuring language proficiency is to distinguish between the effects of change…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Discourse Analysis
