The observations gleaned from the experiences of two editors of speech communication journals served as the basis for the identification of the limitations inherent in research studies employing qualitative methods. Among their observations are the following: (1) qualitative research remains a relatively ill defined descriptor which embodies a…

A study was conducted to enhance understanding of the role of sex in influencing beliefs about argumentative communication. Using a belief structure framework, the study investigated how males and females discriminate on beliefs about arguing. The study also explored whether trait argumentativeness influences biological sex in discriminating…

That communication is the engineer's responsibility is inherent in the nature of engineering. The engineer's first order of responsibility is to the organization for which he or she works. Engineers fill specific roles in business, industry, public institutions, and government agencies, and their responsibilities are to get things done for those…

Ways in which various uses or applications of a microcomputer can help improve the image of a college or university department are discussed in this paper. The paper discusses applications such as instruction, word processing, management, programing, communications, statistics, and graphics, and audiences for these applications, such as department…

Rhetorical force can be used to analyze interaction in organizational communication. In such an analysis, force is conceived of as being perceptual, arising out of interaction, aiding in understanding communication patterns, and increasing one's abilities both to anticipate actions and to plan or constrain one's actions. Rhetoric is a product of…

Since the Japanese writing system seems to frighten secondary school students as a compulsory study, the author recommends teaching only Romanized Japanese at the high school level. (PMP)

An assessment of college forensics projects. (CH)

The benefits accruing from a carefully administered Informal Reading Inventory make administering them well worth the time. (JH)

Three experiments are reported, all directed to the question of whether vicalization at presentation affects primary memory (PM) rather than secondary memory (SM). (Editor)

This study investigates the educational consequences of utilizing listen-response-compare mode in a college level language laboratory. (Author)

Reviewed are growth, activities, and changes of the Oral Deaf Adults Section (ODAS) of the Alexander Graham Bell Association since its establishment in 1964 to aid adjustment of the deaf to society. (MC)

Entrenched dogma about the primacy of reading hinders real learning. (JH)

Suggestions for teaching oral interpretation in English and speech courses. (CH)

Communication models suggest that oral interpretation is a communicative process, that this process may be represented by specification of implicit and explicit content and structure, and that the models themselves are useful. This paper examines these assumptions through a comparative analysis of communication models employed by oral…