The Communication Capstone: The Communication Inquiry and Theory Experience (CITE) is the first textbook explicitly designed for graduating seniors in a Communication Capstone course, whether taught in small or large sections, or taught as a conceptual review or as a project- or skills-based course. The text features chapters authored by active, well-published, and award-winning scholars and teachers in their respective areas of study. CITE is built on an integ

The Communication Capstone: The Communication Inquiry and Theory Experience (CITE) is the first textbook explicitly designed for graduating seniors in a Communication Capstone course, whether taught in small or large sections, or taught as a conceptual review or as a project- or skills-based course. The text features chapters authored by active, well-published, and award-winning scholars and teachers in their respective areas of study. CITE is built on an integrated approach that moves across four conceptually-ordered units: - Knowing Who We Are and Where We''ve Been: The history of the discipline and orienting principles of the communication process - Knowing How We Know What We (Claim to) Know: Theoretical and methodological paradigms - Knowing Where We Are and What Our Communication Is Doing: Core functions and contexts of communication, including as exemplars chapters on: interpersonal, gender, argument and persuasion, conflict, organizational and leadership, health communication, intercultural communication, political communication, and mass and mediated communication - Knowing Why Knowing About Communication Matters: Careers and opportunities available to those who study communication Mastery of the knowledge base in CITE, facilitated by the assessment-oriented student learning objectives that introduce each chapter, represents solid evidence that students have learned a core and specifiable set of knowledge in the field. Contributors and chapters include: KNOWING WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE''VE BEEN: THE DISCIPLINE AND ITS HISTORY 1. Communication as a Discipline: History and Intellectual Content - William F. Eadie 2. Orienting to Communication: The Nature of [verbal & nonverbal] Communication - Brian H. Spitzberg & Peter A. Andersen KNOWING HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE (CLAIM TO) KNOW: RESEARCH PARADIGMS 3. Knowing What We Don''t Know Yet: Major Paradigms - Brian H. Spitzberg 4. Knowing What We Think We Know: Theory as a Way of Knowing - Brian H. Spitzberg 5. Knowing What We Already Know - The Process of Background Research - Brian H. Spitzberg 6. Critical and Rhetorical Ways of Knowing - Josh S. Hanan & Christopher N. Gamble 7. Interpretive and Ethnographic Ways of Knowing - Patricia Geist-Martin & Kurt Lindemann 8. Performative Ways of Knowing - Kurt Lindemann 9. Conversation Analytic (CA) Ways of Knowing - Wayne A. Beach 10. Quantitative Ways of Knowing - I: Key Principles - Lourdes S. Martinez, Rachael A. Record, & Brian H. Spitzberg 11. Quantitative Ways of Knowing - II: Four Research Methods in Communication - Lourdes S. Martinez, Rachael A. Record, & Daniel J. Canary KNOWING WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT OUR COMMUNICATION IS DOING: FUNCTIONS AND CONTEXTS OF COMMUNICATION 12. Communication and Gender - Julie L. Taylor 13. Interpersonal and Relational Communication - Perry M. Pauley, Colter D. Ray, Brian H. Spitzberg, & Matthew Savage 14. Argument, Persuasion, and Influence - Perry M. Pauley, Colter D. Ray, Brian H. Spitzberg, & Matthew Savage 15. Conflict Management Communication - Brian H. Spitzberg & Daniel J. Canary 16. Group & Team Communication - Kathleen C. Czech 17. Organizational Communication and Leadership - Kathleen Czech, Heather E. Canary, Tiffany A. Dykstra-Devette, & William Snavely 18. Intercultural Communication - Yea-Wen Chen 19. Health Communication - Patricia Geist-Martin, Rachael A. Record, Perry Pauley, Wayne Beach, Lourdes Martinez, & Meghan Bridgid Moran 20. Political Communication, Movements, and Campaigns - Luke Winslow 21. Public Address and Public Speaking - Luke Winslow 22. Mass Communication - Rachael A. Record & Brian H. Spitzberg 23. Mediated Communication - Brian H. Spitzberg & Rachael A. Record KNOWING WHY KNOWING ABOUT COMMUNICATION MATTERS 24. College, Communication, and Careers - Brian H. Spitzberg

The Senior Capstone is an original project intended to allow Mass Communications students at Delaware State University to showcase their overall understanding of communications studies in one of three concentrations: Radio, Television & Film, Convergence Journalism or Public Relation & Advertising. This project should focus on important and substantive issues and should reflect the student's understanding of the industry and a familiarity with current technology and tools utilized in the field. This workbook contains documents students will need to fulfill the capstone requirements.

This handbook is a compilation of important materials and forms students will need to complete the capstone experience in Mass Communications at Delaware State University. While this is not an exhaustive handbook, it provides foundational material that will help students to successfully navigate the capstone process. The Capstone itself is an exciting and enterprising opportunity for students to showcase what they have learned, both fundamentally, theoretically, and practically as it relates to the concentrations areas offered at DSU.

The book examines key topics such as interpersonal and family relationships in old age, media portrayals of aging, cultural variations in intergenerational communication, and health communication in old age.

When Mark Goldberg first visited a school with an advisory system, he was impressed by the way such a system personalizes school for secondary students, provides a shared professional experience for the adults in a school, and improves home-school relations. He decided that if given the opportunity, he would bring an advisory program to a secondary school. Later, when he became founding administrator of a high school, he started an advisory system. This book is based on his experiences. Goldberg explains why an advisory system is important, what it requires, and how to tailor the concept to a particular school to provide an enriched experience for students, staff, and parents. An advisory system stresses the advisor-advisee relationship and ensures that every student is known well by at least one adult in a school. That adult--a teacher, administrator, librarian, or other staff member--becomes the student's advocate and the first person the student seeks out to discuss school problems with or to get advice about where to turn for assistance with more serious issues. Such a relationship enhances the student's school life, from course selection to decisions about the future. This practical book provides a comprehensive look at a unique system for personalizing secondary school so students get the most out of their years in school and are better prepared for life after graduation.

Surveys of employers continually highlight the need for better communication skills among recent college graduates. Yet writing instruction in higher education serves far more than a transactional purpose. Writing facilitates learning, helps students gain skills in analysis and synthesis, and supports a range of other personal and intellectual developmental outcomes also important to employers. To that end, Writing in the Senior Capstone offers the rationale and practical guidance for infusing writing into culminating academic experiences for college seniors. Recognizing that writing-intensive capstones already exist on many campuses, the authors also offer a range of strategies and activities to support the development of independent senior projects, while honing students' thinking, writing, and presentation skills. A valuable resource for any educator seeking to improve the writing and critical thinking skills of college seniors.