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The Communication Blog

http://tcbdevito.blogspot.com

for people who teach one of the basic courses in communication--interpersonal communication, fundamentals of communication, and public speaking

Added on: Dec 23rd, 2005
Country: United States
Language: English

Listed in: Education Writing Relationships
Tags: communication public speaking free speech nonverbal communication communication skills abcd

Recent Posts

Nonverbal Communication: Scent

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 11:13 in nonverbal communication, smell, scent

Here's a brief article on a soon-to-be-published article on scent and memory. In this study students examined scented and unscented pencils and a ten-point list of the pencil's attributes (i.e., its selling points). The study found that students bett...
The New Celebrity

Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 10:33 in celebrity chef, narcotizing function of the media

Thumbing through the latest issue of TV Guide I see celebrity chef Giada DeLaurentiis and am reminded of the great popularity of cooking shows and the emergence of the chef as the new celebrity. It may not be time to dismiss Britney Spears and George...
Communicology

Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 13:33 in communicology

Here is a wonderful history of the use of the term communicology. I had titled the first 2 editions of Human Communication, Communicology but the term was not well understood at the time and the editor's decision to change the title prevailed. Perhap...
Leadership Styles

Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 13:26 in leadership, styles of leadership

Here is an interesting discussion of leadership--perhaps a view that business students in communication courses will relate to more than the traditional systems we use in small group courses.http://tcbdevito.blogspot.com...
self-disclosure

Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 10:00 in Secrets, self-disclosure, anonymous self-disclosure

Here's a really different take on self-disclosure. Here you mail in your secrets anonymously and they're posted for all to see. Because it's anonymous, this wouldn't be called self-disclosure, as we normally think of it. And yet it is a form of self-...
Conversation

Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 16:21 in conversation, annoying phrases

Here's an interesting little graphic bit from USAToday--the most annoying phrases in conversation. Here are the five top (from a survey of 938 adults): "Whatever" 47% "You know" 25% "It is what it is" 11% "Anyway" 7% "At the end of the day" 2% It see...