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Articles: Communication Studies  
Find Communication Studies articles in our library resources.


Other Resources:
Access to some of these resources is limited to Cal U patrons, while others are free Web sites available to anyone.


American Rhetoric  
Access numerous famous speeches--as transcribed full-text, the actual recordings, or recorded reenactments. A useful section called "Rhetorical Figures in Sound" illustrates many figures of speech. Think you know rhetoric? Take the "Rhetoric Quiz!"


Changingminds.org: Changing Minds and Persuasion  
This large site covers all aspects of how we change one another's minds.


CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship  
CIOS offers a range of resources relating to communications studies. Although ComAbstracts and Journal Index are no longer available to Cal U patrons, you may find the following resources particularly helpful (and there's more at CIOS):
ComWeb MegaSearch -- Search more than 350 Communication, Journalism, Speech, and Rhetoric related Web sites.
Resource Library -- Search thousands of full-text files in the Resource Library, including scholarly conferences.
Electronic Journal of Communication -- This full-text, online, peer reviewed quarterly journal of original scholarship in communication is available to anyone. You can browse the Table of Contents of all issues.


Elements of Mass Communication: An Interactive Cybertext  
This online "course" by Ron Whittaker, Ph.D. covers: film, radio, TV, print, and Internet communication sources. Provides content, documentation, and helpful graphics to explain this wide range of communication media. Includes interactive quizzes, supplementary links, and information for instructors using the site.


Television Production: A Comprehensive On-line Cybertext  
This online "course" by Ron Whittaker, Ph.D., author of several television production texts, provides a large number of informative modules covering most facets of television production. Used by many educational institutions for academic credit, it is also useful for individual study. Includes interactive quizzes, supplementary links, and information for instructors using the site.


Working Psychology: Applying Psychology to Influence, Persuasion & Teamwork  
This site is devoted to the scientific study and application of psychological influence, including: persuasion, compliance, indoctrination...and the fields which depend on successful influence for success: marketing, politics & lobbying, public relations, social action campaigns, and many others which depend on voluntary human cooperation.

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