Study Guide

Quiz 1

Crick handout

Comm Studies as Rhetoric

Persuasion

Rhetoric

Comm Studies as Performance

Oral Poetry

Oral Interpretation

Assumptions (predictability, make sense of experience, make and follow rules)

Symbolic Interaction

Social Construction of Reality

Gass Ch 1

What is Communication?

Why Study Persuasion?

Gass Ch 3

Theory of Reasoned Action

Gass Ch 11

Compliance Gaining

5 Basic Strategies (rewarding, punishing, expertise, impersonal, personal commitments)

Reynolds Handout

Purpose of Theory (typology, prediction, explanation, sense of understanding, potential for control)

Types of Theories (set of laws, axiomatic, causal process)

Desireable Characteristics of Theory (abstract, intersubjective, empirical)

Raff Handout

How to read a scientific paper (10 steps)

In-Class

Model of Persuasion (intention, effectiveness, free-will, symbolic, interpersonal) (Also in Gass Chapter 2)