COMM: Communication Information Sources
Explore Communication, rhetoric, and composition
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This web helps you explore Communication information sources; here, you'll find organized and annotated links to Web sites about Communication organizations, topics, books, and links. You can view and link to this information in a variety of ways, and your suggestions are welcome. Use the links at the top of this page to navigate and access this information
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- John December: editor of this information since 1996; has an MS in Communication and Rhetoric
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Orgs
Organizations involved in Communication
- ACA: American Communication Association; academic and professional research, criticism, teaching, practical use, and exchange of principles and theories of human communication
- AWC: Association for Women in Communications; print and broadcast journalism, television and radio production, film, advertising, public relations, marketing, graphic design, multi-media design, and photography
- ISCA: International Speech Communication Association; promotes speech communication science and technology in industry and academia
- MCA-I: Media Communications Association-International; opportunities for networking, forums for education and the resources for information to media communications professionals
- ICA: International Communication Association; association for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication
- NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English; works to advance teaching, research, and student achievement in English language arts at all scholastic levels
- PRSA: Public Relations Society of America; professional organization for public relations practitioners
- IFCA: International Federal of Communication Associations
- Tech Comm: Technical Communication organizations
Topics
Areas of interest to technical communicators
- Comserve: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship; a service for scholars involved in human communication research
- OWA: Paradigm Online Writing Assistant; helps with discovering, organizing, revising, editing, and documenting sources
- CWRL: Computer Writing and Research Lab; division of rhetoric and composition, University of Texas at Austin
- Bibliography: Bibliography for Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication;
- Conferences: Conferences of interest for language, literature, and communication
- CMC: Computer-Mediated Communication information sources
- Tech Comm Info: Technical Communication information sources
Books
Buy books related to Communication
- Human Communication: Featured books from Amazon
- Devito: Essentials of Human Communication, by Joseph A. Devito; introductory textbook covering communication processes, the self, perception, listening, and verbal and non-verbal messages; interpersonal communication, small group communication, and public speaking
- Trenholm: Thinking Through Communication: An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication, by Sarah Trenholm; language, codes, creativity, technology and skills of which effective, clear communication is made
- Heath: Human Communication Theory and Research: Concepts, Context, and Challenges, by Robert L. Heath, Jennings Bryant
Links
Access resource collections related to Communication
- Rhetoric: Rhetoric Resources Web site at Georgia Tech; synopsis of topics related to the study of rhetoric
- Eserver: EServer Technical Communication (and Technical Writing) Library--has rhetoric section; index and portal for professional, scientific and technical communicators; for practitioners, students, teachers and managers to access the best resources available online
Jobs
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