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Communication Centers and Oral Communication Programs in Higher Education Eunkyong Lee Yook

Communication Centers and Oral Communication Programs in Higher Education By Eunkyong Lee Yook

Communication Centers and Oral Communication Programs in Higher Education by Eunkyong Lee Yook


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Communication Centers and Oral Communication Programs in Higher Education: Advantages, Challenges, and New Directions by Eunkyong Lee Yook

Communication Centers and Oral Communication Programs in Higher Education, edited by Eunkyong L. Yook and Wendy Atkins-Sayre, is a collection that examines the centers that support communication departments or across-the-curriculum programs as higher education focuses more attention on the communication field. The authors in this text address theoretical issues covering topics such as the importance of communication centers to higher education, the effects of communication centers on retention, critical thinking in the center, ethics, and more. These essays also explore ideas about center's set-up and use of space, staff training, technology applications, and campus advertising and outreach. Communication Centers organizes cutting-edge knowledge of the theory and empirical research so as to serve practical use to peer tutors and directors, those who are new to the study of communication centers and to those who are seasoned experts. Furthermore, this collection introduces administrators and those interested in higher education to the potential value of communication centers to higher education.

Communication Centers and Oral Communication Programs in Higher Education Reviews

Publication of findings pointing to the value of communication centers and speaking-intensive across-the-curriculum programs in higher education has, until now, failed to keep pace with the success of these endeavors. Professors Yook and Atkins-Sayre have assembled the finest minds and energies in this compilation to demonstrate the long-term and wide-ranging advantages available to schools that have embraced such learning enhancements. The wisdom shared in each of these essays reflects decades of experience, relentless testing of theory and revising practices to make possible the advancement of these initiatives so future practitioners will be better equipped to meet the particular needs of the institutions they serve. As enriching and long-overdue as this scholarship may be, the voices behind it would surely agree, that the difference revealed by students who have participated in these programs will be the finest legacy of the pioneering contributors to this essential text. -- Linda Hobgood, University of Richmond
This volume offers a variety of interesting ideas that point to the power and promise of communication centers as they support communication across the curriculum. Directors and administrators will benefit from such discussions as how such centers enhance critical thinking, ways of conceptualizing the tutorial process, and the use of computer-mediated communication for virtual tutorials. -- Kathleen J. Turner
The editors and contributors are prescient in identifying the need for this compendium of valuable essays. This edited volume on communication centers is a must-read for any faculty member or administrator involved in or considering a center. When we developed our center in the early nineties at the University of Colorado, we would have benefited immensely from access to such useful information. -- Sherwyn Morreale, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

About Eunkyong Lee Yook

Esther Lee Yook is Speaking Center Director and faculty of communication at the University of Mary Washington. Wendy Atkins-Sayre is assistant professor of communication studies and Speaking Center Director at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Benefits to Higher Education Chapter 1. Communication Centers and Retention in Higher Education: Is There a Link? Chapter 2. Speaking Our Minds: Communication Centers and Critical Thinking Chapter 3. Communication Centers and Liberal Arts Education: Problems and Possibilities Associated with Cross-Disciplinary Engagements Chapter 4. The Communication Center: A Critical Site of Intervention for Student Empowerment Chapter 5. The Role Becomes Them: Examining Communication Center Alumni Experiences Part 2. Challenges to Today's Centers Chapter 6. Ethics and the Communication Center: Chameleon or Tortoise? Chapter 7. The Blind Leading the Blind? An Ethnographic Heuristic for Communication Centers Chapter 8. Learning to Tell What You Know: A Communication Intervention for Biology Students Chapter 9. Using Theory and Research to Increase Student Use of Communication Center Services Chapter 10. Focusing on Faculty: The Importance of Faculty Support to Communication Center Success Part 3. Alternative Models for Communication Centers Chapter 11. Communication Center Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration Chapter 12. The Combined Centers Approach: How Speaking and Writing Centers Can Work Together Chapter 13. Course Management Systems: Creating Alternative Avenues for Student Access of Communication Centers Chapter 14. Virtual Communication Centers: A Resource for Building Oral Competency Chapter 15. The Implementation of Computer-Mediated Communication in Communication Centers Part 4. New Directions in Consultant Training Chapter 16. Technology Tutoring: Communication Centers Take the Lead Chapter 17. Using Empathetic Listening to Build Client Relationships at the Center Chapter 18. Best Practices in Communication Center Training and Training Assessment

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NLS9780739184622
9780739184622
0739184628
Communication Centers and Oral Communication Programs in Higher Education: Advantages, Challenges, and New Directions by Eunkyong Lee Yook
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Lexington Books
2013-04-16
308
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