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- 1.) Brehm, S. S., Kassin, S., & Fein, S. (2005). Social Psychology 6th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2.) Litter: Keep the Island Clean. April 21, 2007. http://www.gov.pe.ca/enveng/litter/index.php3?lang=E. 3.) Victory Enterprises, Inc. No Littering Signs. April 22, 2007. http://www.victorystore.com/signs/property_management/no_littering.htm 4.) Recycling Facts. April 24, 2007. http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html. 5.) Don’t Waste Our State: Litter Facts. April 24, 2007. http://www.dot.state.mn.us/adopt/facts.html. 6.) The Facts About Cigarette Butts and Litter. April 24, 2007. http://www.cigarettelitter.org/index.asp?PageName=Facts. 7.) Litter Facts. April 24, 2007. http://www.ottawa.ca/city_services/environment/community/springcleanin g/litter_facts_en.html. 8.) University of Rhode Island Recycling. April 24, 2007. http://www.uri.edu/admin/recycle/urifactoids.html. (1)
- A version of pluralistic ignorance seems to be in effect as well. When people see a lot of trash on the ground and they don’t see anyone else concerned about it, they may think there’s no reason to be concerned, making them more likely to add their own trash to the environment around them. Habituation also has a part in this issue. As people see litter everyday, almost everywhere they go, their responses to it are reduced, and they eventually become used to it. They may forget that littering is even a problem that has to be addressed and fixed. Diffusion of responsibility plays a role as well. If people believe that others will take action and clean up their trash, they may feel like littering is ok because someone else will clean it later. (1)
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- Campaign aimed at cleaning up the campus environment Phase one of the clean up of the University of Rhode Island campus would begin with an addition of numerous trash cans and recycling bins, spanning all around the campus as a whole. Then a vast amount of flyers supporting throwing away trash and recycling would be posted in numerous classrooms, bathrooms, hallways, walkways, offices, bus stops, and all over the campus grounds. These signs would incorporate positive messages to clean up after yourself, and include alarming statistics to make students more wise to the urgent issue at hand. These signs would help to raise awareness of the problem and get more students to throw away their trash. After phase one is completed phase two would begin. Phase two would incorporate the use of numerous volunteers. Volunteers would come from various places such as environmental groups on campus, and the URI 101 course, which calls for community service hours to be completed. We would also advertise the community service opportunity so anyone willing and wanting to help out could be included. With these volunteers we would hold various fund-raising drives. We would hold a benefit concert, with all profits going to our cause. We would sell raffle tickets and raffle off a sum of money, and use the left over funds for (1)
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- Conformity plays a role in why people litter as well. If littering is perceived as a norm, people may change their behaviors to fit in with that “norm”. The theory of planned behavior says that attitudes toward a specific behavior as well as subjective norms and perceived control influence a person’s actions. If there is litter all over the ground, people may perceive littering as a norm, so even though they may know it’s bad, they may decide to litter anyways because other people do it too. The actor-observer effect may play a role when there is not a trashcan present. An individual can know that littering is bad and think that other people who litter don’t care about the environment. When there is no trashcan present, however, and that individual decides to litter, the individual could tell himself that he does care about the environment and that it was the situation he was in that made him litter. When litter has already accumulated, the false-consensus effect may influence people, making them overestimate the extent to which others think it’s ok to litter. If many people are perceived to think littering is ok, an individual might be more likely to do so as well. A version of pluralistic ignorance seems to be in effect as well. When people see a lot of trash on the ground and they don’t see anyone else concerned about it, (1)
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- If you’re spotted throwing away your trash on campus you could be handed $5, $10, or even $20 on the spot!!! So make sure you’re doing your part and you might get lucky!” The event would work by having the volunteers take rounds on the campus numerous times daily, equipped with many $5, $10, and $20 certificates. The volunteers would have specific routes to follow that walked by many different trash cans on the campus. If the volunteers spotted someone throwing away their trash at random, they would then hand out a certificate to that person for 5, 10, or 20 dollars. That person would then be able to come to our group and claim their cash reward for throwing away trash and making our campus a cleaner place! (1)
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Full-Text Articles in Interpersonal and Small Group Communication
Deliberation And Dialogue In The Pracademic Commons, Roger A. Lohmann
Deliberation And Dialogue In The Pracademic Commons, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
There is a strong connection between deliberation and dialogue and commons theory Deliberative activity generally takes place within group settings that approximate the defining conditions of a commons. In addition, social capital, in the form of trust and a sense of mutuality, and construction of a new or reconstituted normative outlook typically result from successful deliberation and dialogue efforts. This poses several lessons for the practice of the practice of such discussions.
Effects Of Job Stereotype, Applicant Gender, And Powerful And Powerless Speech Styles On Telephone Interview Outcomes, Heather Deanna Palmer Mcfarland
Effects Of Job Stereotype, Applicant Gender, And Powerful And Powerless Speech Styles On Telephone Interview Outcomes, Heather Deanna Palmer Mcfarland
Dissertations
By examining the effects of powerful and powerless speech styles, gender stereotyped jobs, and gendered voices during the employment interviewing process, this study sought to further the research of Parton (1996); Parton, Siltanen, Hosman, and Langenderfer (2002); and Juodvalkis, Grefe, Hogue, Svyantek, and DeLamarter (2003). This study was designed to further explore the possibility of longitudinal changes within acceptable communicative expectations during telephone job interviewing. Participants (undergraduate and professional) listened to two audio taped interviews manipulated by speech style, stereotyped job title, and interviewee gender. Variables were evaluated on semantic differential scales following the previous work of Parton (1996). Similar …
Adventures In Digitization: A New Librarian Shares Five Hard Earned Tips To Avoid Project Management Pitfalls, Cory K. Lampert
Adventures In Digitization: A New Librarian Shares Five Hard Earned Tips To Avoid Project Management Pitfalls, Cory K. Lampert
Library Faculty Presentations
Many institutions are feeling pressure to embark on digitization projects to provide greater access and visibility to their unique materials. Digitization initiatives have numerous benefits, but they can also drain staff time and resources if they are not planned and prioritized well. As new librarians are hired into increasingly technical entry-level positions, they are often expected to contribute to or lead digitization projects requiring a diverse skill set. Learn five key tips to help recent grads and new digital project managers to avoid pitfalls. Topics will include: the importance of the planning process, involving key people at the right time, …
Social Influence Effects On Romantic Relationships Of College Students, Christine Mary Banach
Social Influence Effects On Romantic Relationships Of College Students, Christine Mary Banach
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Social influence is defined as "the influences that people have upon the beliefs and behavior of others" (Aronson, 2004, p. 5). A theoretical model that highlights the importance of social influence pressures and in particular, variability in response to these pressures is known as social identity theory. Social identity is defined as "that part of an individual's self-concept which derives from knowledge of membership of a social group (or groups) together with the value and emotional significance attached to that membership" (Harris & Cameron, 2005, p. 159). The current study explored the potential importance of social groups, especially peers, on …
Organizing For Community Benefit: Anti-Gentrification Effort In Providence, Ri, Katiuska Pérez
Organizing For Community Benefit: Anti-Gentrification Effort In Providence, Ri, Katiuska Pérez
Senior Honors Projects
Throughout my college experience I didn’t really gain any basic foundation on how to organize and work with a group of people in a collective effort. I thought the best way to learn these skills in such a short amount of time would be to work with an organization that has been campaigning for positive social change for many years. I was referred to DARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality) in Providence. I approached the director of the organization, Sara Mersha, and shared with her what I wanted to gain from a possible internship in her organization. She gave …
Environmental Stewardship On The Uri Campus, Joseph A. Santiago, Lauri Leach, Michela O’Rourke, Rachel Toppi
Environmental Stewardship On The Uri Campus, Joseph A. Santiago, Lauri Leach, Michela O’Rourke, Rachel Toppi
Student Affairs Digital Community Development
This poster campaign and report was an effort to get environmental stewardship to be more of a part of the student government at URI. It was used to raise awareness and link people's actions to theory so that future work could be built off this and assessed for its effectiveness.
Family Stories As Indicators Of The Family Dynamic, Allison Clarkson
Family Stories As Indicators Of The Family Dynamic, Allison Clarkson
Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects
An important element of the family unit involves the stories that are often told and retold. Although the collection of stories varies among families, the themes within these stories are sometimes common across different families. Within this research, certain patterns were shown to recur regarding these story themes. Furthermore, a positive relationship was found between families’ stories and the characteristics that are used to describe the families.
Voicing Complaints In The Public Arena, Leo Wayne Jeffres, Guowei Jian, David Atkin
Voicing Complaints In The Public Arena, Leo Wayne Jeffres, Guowei Jian, David Atkin
Communication Faculty Publications
This study draws on several literatures--the Tichenor et al. (1980) pluralism model stressing community constraints, the spiral of silence literature stressing the importance of the climate of communication, and the currently popular emphasis on democratic discussion in the "public sphere." In the Tichenor et al. (1980) model, media stress consensus and avoid conflict in more homogeneous communities. Here we extend the issue to question whether community characteristics affect perceptions of the climate of communication and one's comfort in voicing complaints in public. The results present some support for existing theory as well as some contradictions.
Practicing Civility In The Legal Writing Course: Helping Law Students Learn Professionalism, Sophie M. Sparrow
Practicing Civility In The Legal Writing Course: Helping Law Students Learn Professionalism, Sophie M. Sparrow
Law Faculty Scholarship
This Article suggests some concrete ways to teach civility— one component of professionalism—to law students. Professionalism certainly includes much more than civility, incorporating the concepts of ethics, morals, public service, life-long learning, personal integrity, professional identity, and a commitment to selfdevelopment. This Article begins with a brief overview of civility in Part I. Part II provides a few of the many arguments for why we should teach law students to be civil. Part III explores some concrete ways in which we can teach civility within individual classes, using the dynamics of student engagement in the classroom as an opportunity to …
Millennial Pre-Camp Staff Training: Incorporating Generational Knowledge, Learning Strategies And Compliance Gaining Techniques, Dana Robin Magilen
Millennial Pre-Camp Staff Training: Incorporating Generational Knowledge, Learning Strategies And Compliance Gaining Techniques, Dana Robin Magilen
Theses Digitization Project
A new generation, Millennial Generation, is currently staffing summer camp programs. Camp directors need to be aware of the differences in learning styles this generation prefers. The Millennial generation is the first to grow up with the instant accessibility of the Internet. This project was created based on suggestions from Camp Directors and ideas that have been developed from the study of this generation. A pre-camp video game training script has been created and tailored to the Millennial camp staff in order to encourage Millennials to learn and use the information needed to take proper care of campers.
Seeking Social Support Among Female Graduate Teaching Assistants, Lisa M. Theisen, Robert A. Davilla
Seeking Social Support Among Female Graduate Teaching Assistants, Lisa M. Theisen, Robert A. Davilla
Basic Communication Course Annual
This study investigated how female graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) develop social support and the influence that these relationships have on their academic, teaching, and social lives. In-depth interviews were conducted with seven female GTAs in a Communication Studies master’s degree program at a large southern university. Results revealed that participants formed closer, more personal relationships with other graduate students, specifically other GTAs, and that these relationships influenced their academic lives, including teaching. Participants formed meaningful but more formal relationships with faculty. Relationships with faculty had little influence on their teaching but influenced their graduate coursework and post-graduate plans.
Editor's Page, Paul Turman
Editor's Page, Paul Turman
Basic Communication Course Annual
Now in its nineteenth year, the Basic Communication Course Annual continues to serve as an important outlet within the discipline for scholarship related to the way we teach, manage, and evaluate the basic course. Each year the Annual offers some of the best research on basic course pedagogy helping to position it as the primary source for teachers and scholars working to improve the quality of the basic course at their respective institutions. The Annual's success has always been attributed to the community of scholars who continue to support the journal as contributors, editorial board members, and its readership. I …
Designing Classroom Management Training For Basic Course Instructors, Kevin R. Meyer, Cheri J. Simonds, Brent K. Simonds, John R. Baldwin, Stephen K. Hunt, Mark E. Comadena
Designing Classroom Management Training For Basic Course Instructors, Kevin R. Meyer, Cheri J. Simonds, Brent K. Simonds, John R. Baldwin, Stephen K. Hunt, Mark E. Comadena
Basic Communication Course Annual
Since many basic course training programs fail to adequately address classroom management issues, most graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) enter the classroom unprepared to confront student misbehaviors. However, literature suggests that by incorporating classroom management issues into training programs, GTAs will be better armed to establish the instructional climate of the classroom and confront student misbehaviors. In this study, GTAs who had not received classroom management training (CMT) were given a survey containing closed and open-ended questions regarding typical student misbehaviors, possible classroom responses to those behaviors, and preferences for classroom management information during training. The results of this study identify …
Creating Sites For Connection In The Classroom: Dialogism As A Pedagogy For Active Learning, Melissa A. Broeckelman
Creating Sites For Connection In The Classroom: Dialogism As A Pedagogy For Active Learning, Melissa A. Broeckelman
Basic Communication Course Annual
Public speaking pedagogy should be based in communication theory, but as a whole, our discipline has failed to integrate theory and praxis in the classroom. Dialogism is a good starting point for developing theory-based pedagogical strategies and is further supported by Vygotsky’s zones of proximal development, Dewey and Bruner’s call for experience-based learning, and research on collaborative learning. Here, I propose four specific strategies for incorporating dialogism into the pedagogy of public speaking courses: (a) use detailed grading rubrics to create a shared meaning of expectations before, during, and after the speech-building process, (b) give instructor feedback on outlines prior …
Learning Communities In The Basic Communication Course: Exploring Students’ Perception Of Power And Use Of Compliance-Gaining Strategies, Natalie J. Kussart, Stephen K. Hunt, Cheri J. Simonds
Learning Communities In The Basic Communication Course: Exploring Students’ Perception Of Power And Use Of Compliance-Gaining Strategies, Natalie J. Kussart, Stephen K. Hunt, Cheri J. Simonds
Basic Communication Course Annual
This study compared students’ use of behavior alteration techniques (BATs) and power based upon whether they were enrolled in learning community or traditional sections of the basic communication course being taught by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). The results of the present study reveal no differences between learning community and regularly enrolled students’ perceptions of power. However, learning community students reported using more prosocial, antisocial, and neutral compliance-gaining strategies compared to traditionally enrolled students. Overall, this study addresses the utility of incorporating learning communities into the pedagogy of the basic communication course and devotes special attention to the training needs of …
The Influence Of Diaphragmatic Breathing To Reduce Situational Anxiety For Basic Course Students, Marlina Marie Howe, Karen Kangas Dwyer
The Influence Of Diaphragmatic Breathing To Reduce Situational Anxiety For Basic Course Students, Marlina Marie Howe, Karen Kangas Dwyer
Basic Communication Course Annual
Researchers in physiology and health fields have reported a significant impact from using diaphragmatic breathing (DB) to help individuals reduce anxiety. However, few communication researchers have explored the use of this simple DB technique to help basic course students reduce communication apprehension (CA). Thus, this investigation explored the use of diaphragmatic breathing (DB) in helping students moderate CA. Respondents completed McCroskey’s (1982) Personal Reports of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) after each of four formal classroom speeches. Results indicated the experimental group using DB reported a significant decrease in state anxiety from speech the first two …
Presentation Skills: An Assessment Of University And Career-Related Presentations, Lesa A. Stern, Melissa Hailer
Presentation Skills: An Assessment Of University And Career-Related Presentations, Lesa A. Stern, Melissa Hailer
Basic Communication Course Annual
Two studies were conducted to assess the frequency and types of presentations students encounter across the curriculum and whether these presentations parallel those they will encounter in their chosen career. The first study was a content analysis of sixty portfolios (containing a total number of 1360 courses) to find evidence of presentation assignments across the curriculum. Results indicate students encounter one or two classroom-presentation learning experiences per year during their time at the university, and most of these presentations were group and informative oriented. The second study was a survey of faculty to assess the types of presentations required in …
Book Review: 'The Basic Communication Course Online: Scholarship And Application', Paul J. Siddens Iii
Book Review: 'The Basic Communication Course Online: Scholarship And Application', Paul J. Siddens Iii
Basic Communication Course Annual
Citation information for the book reviewed:
- Goodnight, L. J., & Wallace, S. P. (2005). The Basic Communication Course Online: Scholarship and Application. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 96 pp.
“The debate over whether the basic communication course should be taught online is over. Despite our reservations, we have … successfully created and taught the basic course as distance learning.”
This first sentence in co-editor Lisa Goodnight’s preface to this source book succinctly summarizes its theme: We are past the point of debating the issue of teaching the basic course online. It is now time to ensure that we engage in this process …
Index Of Titles And Authors, Volumes 1-18
Index Of Titles And Authors, Volumes 1-18
Basic Communication Course Annual
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Communication Counts, Christine G. Springer
Communication Counts, Christine G. Springer
Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Research
The author discusses the necessity of communications in a business setting. She cited the implementation of Plain Talk by the Annie E. Cassey Foundation which proves the fact that policy works best when decision makers, community residents and citizen customers communicate effectively. She also revealed that to surely achieve success in the business, it is suggested to never underestimate the emotional power of human nature and build a sense of community through continual communication.