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Beyond Writing: A Case For A Speech-Based Basic Course In A Vid-Oral World, W. Lance Haynes

Basic Communication Course Annual

Recent developments in media studies research suggest ways basic course curricula may be inappropriately biased toward written mediation and the forms of cognition writing engenders. This paper explores the media-cognition relationship to argue for teaching oral communication from a different perspective.

First, the concept of "ways of thinking" reveals some ways media inherently affect communication. Then parallels between the new "vid-oral" media and the pre-literate oralist tradition suggest foundations for a speech-based basic course.

A Communication Based Model Of Friendship For The Interpersonal Communication Course, Rod Troester

Basic Communication Course Annual

This paper presents a model of friendship drawn from the friendship research of S.W. Duck and the management approach to interpersonal communication of S.A. Deetz and S.L. Stevenson.

Duck's research is briefly summarized and offered as a theoretical and conceptual foundation for understanding the psychological or cognitive dimensions of friendship. The Management Approach to interpersonal communication, researched by Deetz and Stevenson, is developed as a means for understanding the behavior dimensions associated with the conduct of friendship.

These complementing approaches are integrated using the general systems notions of structure, function and evolution. The approaches and model are discussed as they …

Some Student Perceptions Of Grades Received On Speeches, Ted J. Foster, Michael Smilowitz, Marilyn S. Foster, Lynn A. Phelps

Basic Communication Course Annual

Frequent evaluation of student work is standard practice in basic courses. Frequent evaluation assumes a relationship between the evaluation and improved performance. In higher education, evaluations are often expressed as grades. This study examines the relationship between twelve grades students receive on their speeches, and the affective and motivational effects those grades might have.

Generally, the study found that students prefer higher grades but are motivated by lower grades. Specifically, the study indicates disparity between instructor intention in using pluses and minuses with grades and student reaction to the pluses and minuses.

A Program Of Rater Training For Evaluating Public Speeches Combining Accuracy And Error Approaches, Nancy Rost Goulden

Basic Communication Course Annual

Systematic rater training results in higher validity and reliability for scores from either classroom speeches or speeches from wide-scale testing. This paper includes a complete script for rater training using a combination of two training methods: error training to sensitize raters to their biases and accuracy training to insure rater understanding of criteria and processes of rating.

The script is designed to provide training for either the analytic or holistic method and has been shown to result in reliable, valid speech scoring.

Evaluating The Basic Course: Using Research To Meet The Communication Needs Of The Students, Lyn B. Bendtschneider, Douglas M. Trank

Basic Communication Course Annual

This paper presents a rationale for evaluating the basic course to determine the extent to which it meets the communication needs of the students. The results of a study undertaken at one institution are offered to illustrate the questions and implications such an evaluation might address. The literature relevant to basic course assessments are reviewed, and suggestions for basic course programs undertaking this type of evaluation are discussed.

The Basic Course: What Do We Know? What Do We Need To Know? Where Do We Go From Here?, Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss, David L. Kosloski

Basic Communication Course Annual

Research in the basic course in the 1980s was largely atheoretical and limited in generalizability, both inside and outside of speech communication.

While there is nothing wrong with an applied approach to teaching and learning, that approach needs to be augmented by more generalizable studies. Research guided by theoretical frameworks or based on prior findings tends to be more valuable than the tendency for basic course directors to search for hypotheses in less systematic ways.

The review of literature presented in this paper reveals an extensive typology of basic course variables but no clear framework within which to conduct future …

Basic Communication Course Annual Vol. 2

Basic Communication Course Annual

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Rules For Conciliation - Society Of Maritime Arbitrators, Inc.

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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Admissibility Of Government Agency Reports In Maritime Cases, Gordon W. Paulsen, Leroy Lambert

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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Book Reviews

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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The New Rules Governing Maritime Arbitration In China, Liu Shujian

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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The New Salvage Convention: A Shipowner's Perspective, James B. Wooder

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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Critical Issues In Aviation/Aerospace Education, Frank Mitchell

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

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Determining Admiralty Tort Jurisdiction: An Alternative Analytical Framework, Robert Force

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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[Introduction To] After The Future: Postmodern Times And Places, Gary Shapiro

Bookshelf

This book brings together diverse aspects of postmodernism by philosophers, literary critics, historians of architecture, and sociologists. It addresses the nature of postmodernism in painting, architecture, and the performing arts, and explores the social and political implications of postmodern theories of culture.

The book raises the question of whether postmodernism is to be seen as one more epoch or period within a succession of eras, or as a challenge to the modernist practice of periodization itself.

The nature of the subject and of subjectivity is explored in order to resituate and contextualize the autonomous subject of the modern literary traditions. …

[Introduction To] Redeeming Politics, Peter Iver Kaufman

Bookshelf

Peter Iver Kaufman explores how various Christian leaders throughout history have used forms of "political theology" to merge the romance of conquest and empire with hopes for political and religious redemption. His discussion covers such figures as Constantine, Augustine, Charlemagne, Pope Gregory VII, Dante, Zwingli, Calvin, and Cromwell.

The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Of Citizens Of 1789, The Reign Of Terror, And The Revolutionary Tribunal Of Paris, Vincent R. Johnson

Faculty Articles

Recently, Americans have been engaged in an effort to properly commemorate the bicentennial of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. If one is serious about that endeavor, it may be profitable to focus on the other bicentennial being celebrated this year in France. The early days of the French and American republics were intertwined, and it would be erroneous to think that the developments which then took place in the two countries can now fully be understood in isolation.

A number of legal aspects of the French Revolution are especially relevant to the American experience, therefore worth consideration. …

The Status Of The Diplomatic Bag: A Proposed United States Position, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Faculty Articles

The protections afforded diplomats, diplomatic missions, and diplomatic bags have been misused to sponsor or commit various criminal acts. This strikes at the heart of traditional concepts of international diplomatic relations. Use of the diplomatic bag to import and export prohibited or illegal items is particularly concerning, and the most disconcerting abuses are those that use the diplomatic bag to facilitate acts of terrorism.

All malum in se acts that abuse this diplomatic shield are objectionable. As such, it is necessary to examine the current legal status of the diplomatic bag and recent international efforts to re-examine that status. Conflicts …

Challenge And Change: Perspectives On Central Europe, Jayne W. Barnard

Popular Media

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Amélioration De L'Habitacle Des Autos-Patrouilles, Marguerite-Michelle Côté, Ilkka Kuorinka, Raymond Baril, Mary-Ann Dalzell, Richard Geoffrion, Denis Giguère, Christian Larue

Fiches

No abstract provided.

Letters Of Comfort Or Letters Of Cold Comfort, A. D. M. Forte

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Sulfur Deficiency In Poinsettia, Mary E. Dale, Ellen T. Paparozzi, James D. Carr

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Cuttings of Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch ‘Dark Red Annette Hegg’ were grown hydroponically in minus S Hoagland’s solution modified to supply 0, 1, 2, 4, or 8 mg S/liter for 8 weeks. Nutrient solution changes; visual observations, sampling of tissue, and measurement of electrical conductivity and pH were done every 2 weeks. Deficiency symptoms appeared after 4 weeks of growth in treatments supplying 0 or 1 mg S/liter and occasionally in treatments supplying 2 mg S/liter. Symptoms included reddening of the petiole and main vein of new leaves followed by yellowing of these leaves. Leaf tissue S levels ranged …

Adsorption Of The Herbicides Diuron, Terbacil, And Simazine To Blueberry Mulches, Laurie Hodges, Ronald E. Talbert

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Samples of soil, mulch, and the soil/mulch interface zone were collected from commercial highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) fields typical in their use of mulch under Arkansas conditions. Mulches included 1-year-old hardwood sawdust, 5-year-old hardwood sawdust, and 1-year-old pine needle mulch. Herbicide adsorption (Kd values) of the samples was determined for diuron, terbacil, and simazine. The soils, mulches, and interfaces adsorbed nearly 10 times as much diuron and more than twice as much simazine as terbacil. Adsorption of the herbicides was three to five times greater to the mulches than to the soils. Adsorption was significantly correlated with the …

Rust Reaction And Pubescence In Alubia Beans, Haytham Z. Zaiter, Dermot P. Coyne, James R. Steadman

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Sixteen Alubia lines (15 with long, straight hairs and one with short, hooked hairs on trifoliolate leaves) derived from single-plant selections made in an Alubia landrace (Argentine) were used to evaluate the relation of abaxial leaf pubescence to reaction to rust in a greenhouse experiment. The pinto cultivar UI-114 (short, hooked hairs) was used as a susceptible check. One plant per pot, replicated six times, in a randomized complete-block design was used. The primary leaves and the sixth trifoliolates of all plants from 12- and 50-day-old plants, respectively, were inoculated with a water suspension of urediniospores (105 cells/ml) of rust …

Dedication

SMU Law Review

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Restoration Of Competency For Execution: Furious Solo Furore Punitur, Nancy S. Horton

SMU Law Review

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A Study Of The Effects Of Public Health Expenditures And Other Socio-Economic Variables On Labor Productivity In The Philippines, Michael Joel Guevara, John Jerrick Juinio, Alfredo R. Lim

DLSU Business & Economics Review

Most development economists have become convinced that the formation of human capital is important, perhaps even central, to development efforts in poor countries. When increased productivityresults from formal education, health and nutrition, effective job search, migration, or on-the-job training, we see the results of thepast investments in human capital.

Front Matter

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

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Teaching Aviation Law At The Undergraduate Level: A Syllabus, J Scott Hamilton

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

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Developing A Formal Program To Improve Pilot Judgment, Thomas J. Connolly

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

No abstract provided.