Investigates the changes in perceived communication in evolving friendships. Changes in depth of communication suggested that after an initial decline, people in deteriorating relationships may increase the intimacy of their communication. Also, deterioration was not a mirror image reversal of friendship development. (SRT)

Describes an in-house technical writing course that can test theories about the teaching of writing, reveal factors within the workplace that affect writing tasks, and define objectives for future research in organizational communication. (SRT)

Examines the dissemination of information about new methods for teaching technical writing at the University of Wisconsin-Stout as an example of diffusion theory. Results indicate that though the formal impetus for change came from above, the innovation originally came from below and spread through peer networks. (SRT)

Measured high school students' use of Black American English (BAE) via three different data collection techniques: actual conversation, conversation simulations, and self-report questionnaires. Found significant differences in BAE usage according to type of data collection technique used. (PD)

Interviews 25 managers on the nature of managerial communication, including questions about how they would describe their jobs and some of the communication problems their organizations have had. (DF)

Reports on a study measuring foreign-born employees' perceptions of supervisors' acceptance of and openness to "open" messages from the employee. Suggests ways to improve supervisory demonstrations of empathy. (MS)

Discusses a survey of 552 community college presidents conducted to determine patterns and modes of presidential communication with various internal/institutional and external audiences. Internally, trustees, faculty, and other administrators were considered the most important audiences and one-to-one and small group contact the most used…

Discusses the interactional state referred to by speakers of Hebrew as "brogez" as an example of the ritual regulation of conflict. Identifies specific forms and strategies of this type of interaction as they are used by Israeli children and their relevance to children's communicative competence. (SED)

Analyses in this study revealed trends that bear some similarity to other coorientation research on the variables of agreement, accuracy, and congruency between individual members and their group, but the small amount of variance accounted for by time spent communicating suggests a need for measurement revisions in further research. (PD)

Examined relationships among cognitive complexity (social perception skill), verbal ability, and communication competence in classroom communication. Found (1) moderate correlations between cognitive complexity and verbal ability and between communication competence and verbal ability and (2) minimal association between the overall communication…

Examined employee attitudes toward women in general and women as managers, and perceived communication competencies of women managers. Found that female employees demonstrated a more positive regard for women in general, a less traditional view of women as managers, and a more positive perception of their communication competencies. (PD)

Found that (1) students exposed to any three of the instructional strategies (lecture, video role model, and lecture plus a role model) produced better summaries and took more notes than the control group; and (2) those exposed to the video role model asked the most questions. (PD)

Demonstrates frequent occurrence of self-initiated repairs in speech of kindergarten and second grade children. Speech during "Show and Tell" sessions was scored for spontaneous occurrence of repetitions; corrections of word choice reference and syntax; postponements; and abandonments. Findings indicate most frequent communicative…

Examined a videotaped feedback session in an undergraduate management course, particularly exploring communicator style in giving feedback. Concluded that both feedback content and form influence judgments of feedback effectiveness. (PD)

Discriminant analysis reveals threat as a dimension in a public relations practitioner's environment. (FL)