Directory of Communication Related Mental Measures
This text profiles over 500 communication-related mental measures published in a variety of communication journals. This text is a must-have for all quantitative research scholars.
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Quantiative Research Methods for Communication: A Hands-On Approach
This text is the perfect first-course in quantitative research methods for students and scholars. The text has numerous features designed to help learning research methods fun and easy: step-by-step instructions for statistical computations, glossary, range of examples, and a CD-ROM that contains data sets and real research articles from Communication Research Reports and Communication Quarterly. The companion website for the book is also available at http://www.communicationresearch.info.
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Human Communication in Everday Life: Explanations and Applications
This text is an overview of the field of human communication and is intended for an entry level, survey course. The book contains over 40 research measures used in scholarly publications to help students further understand their own communicative behaviors.
The first part of the text explains the terminology and theoretical foundations of human communication, and the second half of the book shows students how these terms and theories can be applied in a range of communicative contexts (e.g., public speaking, gender, intercultural, media, organizational, health, and instructional communication).
Principles of Public Speaking
Principles of Public Speaking was written to help students preparing for the Dantes' examination in public speaking. This bare-bones guide is designed to help students learn the basic concepts in public speaking to help the students prepare for the test.
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Communication, Affect, and Learning in the Classroom
The Third Edition of Virginia Peck Richmond, Jason S. Wrench, and Joan Gorham's text Communication, Affect, & Learning in the Classroom is made freely available to everyone. Please feel free to read, share, and use in your own practice or teaching. Just follow the link to the PDF copy of the e-book. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Mathephobia
Wrench, J. S. (2004). Mathephobia. In. M. Littauer, R. Searle, & S. Buerkle (Eds.). But Lord, I was happy shallow: Lessons learned in the deep places (pp. 73-75). Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel.
To Mrs. Russell
Wrench, J. S. (2000). To Mrs. Russell: An examination of when teaching works. In D. James (Ed.), Teens Can Bounce Back (pp. 85-92). Camp Hill, TN: Horizon.
The Homophile Movement
Wrench, J. S. (2000). Homophile movements in the United States. In T. F. Murphy (Ed.), Readers Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies (pp. 285-286). Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.